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[Norwegian Rudo]

Apologies, I stand corrected. Channel 4 are no longer involved.

http://deadline.com/2017/02/philip-...s-amazon-ron-moore-bryan-cranston-1201911194/



No..., wait. Is Channel 4 still in? The Deadline article isn't super clear about this.

Yeah, I think C4 are still in and Amazon are taking AMC's place as partner.

 

[ahoyhoy]

Pretty sure you're misusing the term "hack" man.

Fair enough. He's a good world builder but a trash show runner and writer.

Basically, he struggles with the nuts and bolts of TV.

 

[Mindwipe]

Apologies, I stand corrected. Channel 4 are no longer involved.

http://deadline.com/2017/02/philip-...s-amazon-ron-moore-bryan-cranston-1201911194/

No..., wait. Is Channel 4 still in? The Deadline article isn't super clear about this.

C4 is still in. You were right the first time.

 

[Ahiru77]

Anthology huh. I think even Cranston fans are about to be surprised by his range.

This series will only have him for one episode, in probably a supporting bit part again.



HOWEVER


GO SEE WAKEFIELD IN THEATERS WHEN IT'S OUT.

GO SEE WAKEFIELD IN THEATERS WHEN IT'S OUT.

GO SEE WAKEFIELD IN THEATERS WHEN IT'S OUT.

 

[Metalmarc]

Nice, more Cyberpunk stuff for tv possibly?

 

[Screaming Meat]

Nice, more Cyberpunk stuff for tv possibly?

PKD isn't strictly speaking cyberpunk, but the themes lend themselves quite well (hence Bladerunner). Depends where they go with it aesthetically, I guess.

 

[hydruxo]

- Variety: Steve Buscemi, Greg Kinnear Enter ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’

Steve Buscemi, Greg Kinnear and Mireille Enos are the latest stars announced to join the cast of Channel 4 and Amazon Prime’s upcoming anthology series “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams.”

Buscemi, who won Golden Globe and SAG awards for his lead role on HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” will take the lead role in an episode entitled “Crazy Diamond.” Buscemi plays an average man who decides to help a gorgeous, synthetic woman when she approaches him with an illegal plan that could change his life completely. The comic film noir episode is written by Tony Grisoni and directed by Marc Munden.

Kinnear and Enos will play the parents of young lead Jack Gore in a sci-fi episode entitled “Father Thing,” which sees the world under attack as aliens quietly invade our homes. Charlie (Gore) must make the most difficult decisions imaginable to protect his mother (Enos) and the human race, as he is among the first to realize that humans are being replaced by dangerous monsters – his father (Kinnear) is amongst the first to change. It is written and directed by Michael Dinner, who is also an executive producer on the show.

 

[RatskyWatsky]

- Variety: Steve Buscemi, Greg Kinnear Enter ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’

Nice cast!

 

[Cornballer]

More casting: ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’: Amazon Finalizes Season 1 Cast With Maura Tierney & Others; Bryan Cranston Role Set

Amazon has finalized the casts for the last two episodes of Season 1 of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, its sci-fi anthology series from Ronald D. Moore, Michael Dinner, Bryan Cranston and Sony Pictures TV. Annalise Basso and Maura Tierney are set for the episode “Safe and Sound,” with Essie Davis, Liam Cunningham and Ruth Bradley in “Human Is.” Series exec producer Cranston, who had been announced as acting in an unspecified episode of the show, will appear in “Human Is.”

The show, based on short stories by the award-winning novelist, was commissioned by Channel 4, which will air the series later this year in the UK. It will launch on Amazon Prime in the U.S.

In “Safe & Sound,” Basso (Ouija: Origins of Evil) plays a small-town girl, already gripped with social anxiety, who moves to a big, futuristic city with her mother (Tierney, The Affair). Exposed for the first time to urban society’s emphasis on security and terrorist prevention, it isn’t long before her school days are consumed by fear and paranoia. She soon finds guidance and companionship in the most unexpected of places. The episode is written by Kalen Egan & Travis Sentell and directed by Alan Taylor.

“Human Is,” penned by Jessica Mecklenburg and helmed by Francesca Gregorini, follows a woman (Davis, The White Princess) suffering in a loveless marriage. She finds that, upon his return from battle, her emotionally abusive husband (Cranston, Sneaky Pete) suddenly appears to be a different man — in more ways than one. Cunningham (Game of Thrones) plays General Olin, and Bradley (Humans) is Yaro. Amazon notes that the episode cuts to the heart of Philip K. Dick’s core concern: What, truly, defines us as human?

Each episode of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams will be adapted by leading British and American writers including Moore, Dinner, Tony Grisoni, Jack Thorne, Matthew Graham, David Farr, Dee Rees and Travis Beacham.

- Jack Reynor & Benedict Wong To Star In ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ ‘Impossible Planet’ Episode

Jack Reynor (Free Fire, Jungle Book) and Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange, The Martian) have been set to star in the second installment of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, a 10-episode anthology series from Ronald D. Moore, Michael Dinner, Bryan Cranston and Sony Pictures TV.

The show, which is based on the short stories by the award-winning novelist, was commissioned by Channel 4 in the UK and picked up by Amazon for the U.S.

Reynor and Wong will star in the episode “Impossible Planet,” written and directed by The Night Manager’s David Farr, which goes into production this week in London. They’ll play two disillusioned, disenchanted and indifferent space tourism employees who take up an elderly woman’s (Geraldine Chaplin) request for a trip back to Earth, the existence of which is a long-debunked myth. She appears easily confused, plus she’s rich – so, for the right payment, what’s the harm in indulging her fantasies? However, as their journey unfolds, their scam begins to eat away at them and they ultimately find themselves dealt a bittersweet surprise.

Justin Butcher (Let Me Go), Georgina Campell (Broadchurch), Bekka Bowling (Loaded), Christopher Staines (Wolf Hall) and Malik Ibheis (Silent Witness) also feature in the episode, which is based on Dick’s short story “The Impossible Planet.”

Each episode of the series will be adapted by leading British and American writers including Moore (Battlestar Galactica), Michael Dinner (Justified), Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), Jack Thorne (National Treasure), Matthew Graham (Life on Mars), Farr (Hanna), Dee Rees (Mudbound) and Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim). Last month, it was announced that Timothy Spall would star in “The Commuter,” directed by Tom Harper and written by Jack Thorne.

 

[Chmpocalypse]

Cranston? Fuck yeah!

Moore? Ehhhhhhh... after the bullshit ending that retroactively ruined BSG? Not really sure I'm up for investing time in a series just to experience that kind of narrative incompetence at the finish line again.

 

[HStallion]

Damn seems like they're assembling one hell of a creative team and cast for this series. Getting even more excited!

 

[Green Embers]

Cranston? Fuck yeah!

Moore? Ehhhhhhh... after the bullshit ending that retroactively ruined BSG? Not really sure I'm up for investing time in a series just to experience that kind of narrative incompetence at the finish line again.

This is an anthology series more like Black Mirror or The Twilight Zone. Each episode will be its own thing. At least that's my understanding. So no worries about the ending.

 

[Timeaisis]

Wow, this sounds cool. They have like a shitton of material, PKD wrote hundreds of short stories.

 

[mclem]

Will this one be a long-Runner?

 

[swarley64]

If this is an anthology series, doesn't that imply that Cranston couldn't be in every episode? I suppose he could be the narrator?