What if theyd conquered the United States?
What would a fascist America look like?
Like Amazons chilling new thrillerThe Man in the High Castle, it turns out.
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Within this imposing setting, three main characters become caught in the German-Japanese-American tensions.
He said, Have you readThe Man in the High Castle?
And I said I hadnt, Scott says.
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He said, Good lord, this seems to be very derived fromHigh Castle.
Dick had a point.
Yet despite his experience writing forThe X-Files, Spotnitz struggled to fit everything into an hour-long drama.
I was afraid to touch it, he admits.
I was like, I love this book, but its not a TV show.
What am I going to do?
His answer: Deviate from the book.
Hes cut scenes and characters and added others, including a mysterious German officer (Rufus Sewell).
And nearly every shot is steeped in German and Japanese symbols.
Its a dark world, because obviously, the fascist forces have won, Spotnitz says.
But its not without hope.
Because in the end, even alternate histories can be changed.
The Man in the High Castlebegins streaming on Amazon on Friday.
