Dick novel, which has been referred to as the crown jewel of the alternative reality, then add Ridley Scott and Frank Spotnitz, that’s a pretty formidable trifecta. The fact that it was based on the award-winning Philip K. Did you always know you were in something special?
MAN IN THE HIGHC ATLE SERIES
The pilot for The Man in the High Castle was the most popular on Amazon’s new series development program.
MAN IN THE HIGHC ATLE TV
We had a chance to discuss Wegener’s motivations with Norgaard, who also shared his TV viewing habits and spoke about his love of Philip K. He’s the rare actor that can jump from genre to genre making a lasting impression on each, perhaps the popularity of The Man in the High Castle, will lead viewers to discover Norgaard’s melancholy work in the Danish dramedy Rita, which has him playing a character who couldn’t have less in common with Wegener if he tried. It helps his cause that he’s played by the exemplary Norgaard, a Danish actor best known to American audiences for his work in Sleepy Hollow and for playing the ruthless Coach Wolf Stansson in D2: The Mighty Ducks. But is he on Japan’s side? Is he working for the Resistance? Is he a Nazi mole? We see him trading secrets with a Japanese officer, in an attempt to prevent war with Japan. One of the most enigmatic of these people is Rudolph Wegener (Carsten Norgaard), a high-rank Nazi officer whose allegiances change with every scene. Populated with characters that exist on the borderline between paranoia and idealism, the show keeps as many secrets from viewers as the characters do from each other. Rather than taking viewers to the current day, perhaps in order to make the idea of the future even more terrifying, the series rather takes place in the Mad Men years (1962 to be precise).
The series takes place in an alternate reality in which the Allies lost WWII, and the Axis Powers rule the planet. The episode became the most watched in the program’s history and Amazon greenlit nine more episodes, which were released almost 11 months later. On 15 January 2015, Amazon debuted the pilot for The Man in the High Castle as part of its series development program.
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