Archief - Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (Channel 4)

Goldrusher · 16 sep 2017

Vanaf 17 september op Channel 4.

Gebaseerd op het werk van Philip K. Dick. Zegt die naam je niets? Dan zéker eerdere verfilmingen als Blade Runner, Total Recall en Minority Report.

Elke episode is standalone, telkens met andere acteurs, schrijvers en regisseurs.

When Channel 4 lost Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror to Netflix, Electric Dreams was its secret weapon. The ten-episode anthology series, which Cranston executive-produced, is based on Dick's lesser-known short stories. Cranston also appears in the episode Human Is, originally published in 1955 as part of pulp sci-fi magazine Startling Stories. The plot is typical of Dick's work: the strains of human nature pushed to the limit by sci-fi dystopias.

Bryan Cranston on the beauty of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams | WIRED UK

Aflevering 1:

The Hood Maker
17 sep

writer: Matthew Graham
director: Julian Jarrold
cast: Richard Madden, Holliday Grainger, Anneika Rose

Set in a world without advanced technology and where mutant telepaths have become humanity’s only mechanism for long distance communication. But their powers have unintended implications and when the public begin to embrace mysterious, telepath-blocking hoods, two detectives with an entangled past are brought in to investigate.

De overige afleveringen:

The Impossible Planet
24 sep

Cast includes: Jack Reynor, Benedict Wong, Geraldine Chaplin
Written by: The Night Manager’s David Farr, who also directs the episode
Based on: The Impossible Planet by Philip K. Dick

Two bitter space tourism employees (Reynor and Wong) take up a confused old woman’s (Chaplin) request for a trip back to Earth – despite the existence of the planet having now become a long-debunked myth. But as time goes on, their scam takes an unusual turn…

The Commuter
1 okt

Cast includes: Timothy Spall, Hayley Squires, Tuppence Middleton
Written by: National Treasure and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne
Based on: The Commuter by Philip K. Dick

A lowly train station employee (Spall) discovers to his great alarm that many commuters are taking a train to an unusual location – a town that shouldn’t exist.

Real Life
8 okt

Cast includes: Anna Paquin, Terrence Howard, Lara Pulver
Written by: Outlander and Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D Moore
Based on: Exhibit Piece by Philip K. Dick

A policewoman from the future (Paquin) finds herself connected to a brilliant game designer from the present (Howard) through an unusual piece of technology, with the pair hunting violent killers who have devastating plans. But when it turns out their connection could be the end of them both, will they be able to break it?

Crazy Diamond
15 okt

Cast includes: Steve Buscemi, Julia Davis, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Joanna Scanlan
Written by: The Young Pope’s Tony Grisoni
Based on: Sales Pitch by Philip K Dick

Boat-lover Ed Morris (Buscemi) leads an ordinary life in a sanitised, heavily-controlled world – but when an enticing synthetic woman (Knudsen) tries to get him involved with a daring heist, his life, career and marriage start to crumble around him.

Human Is
29 okt

Cast includes: Bryan Cranston, Essie Davis, Liam Cunningham, Ruth Bradley
Written by: Stranger Things’ Jessica Mecklenburg
Based on: Human Is by Philip K. Dick

An unhappy woman (Davis) trapped in a loveless marriage with an emotionally abusive husband (Cranston) finds him utterly transformed when he returns from war. But can the changes, however positive, really be so innocent?

Kill All Others
2018

Cast includes: Mel Rodriguez, Vera Farmiga
Written by: Dee Rees, who also directs the episode
Based on: The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick

After a politician (Farmiga) makes a shocking statement encouraging violence, a man is apparently murdered and left hanging from a lamppost. Mysteriously ignored by passersby, only one man (Rodriguez) questions the situation, making himself an instant target as dark forces close in.

Autofac
2018

Cast includes: Juno Temple, Janelle Monae
Written by: Pacific Rim and Clash of the Titans’ Travis Beacham
Based on: Autofac by Philip K. Dick

Human society has collapsed, and a vast, automatic factory keeps humanity oppressed after deciding that freedom of choice and free will only delay consumption of its products. A small band of rebels (including Temple and Monae) are all that stand in the factory’s way – but when they resolve to destroy it, they may find that they’re the perfect consumers after all.

Safe and Sound
2018

Cast includes: Annalise Basso, Maura Tierney
Written by: The Man in the High Castle’s Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell
Based on: Foster You’re Dead by Philip K. Dick

An anxious small-town girl (Basso) moves to an enormous futuristic city with her mother (Maura Tierney), and finds her days gripped by fear and paranoia in a society obsessed with security and terrorist prevention. However, she soon finds some comfort from an unexpected source.

Father Thing
2018

Cast includes: Greg Kinnear, Jack Gore, Mireille Enos
Written by: Michael Dinner
Based on: The Father-Thing by Philip K. Dick

As aliens quietly invade Earth by replacing individual humans, only a young boy (Gore) realises that his father (Kinnear) has become a dangerous monster. Desperate to protect his mother (Enos) and the human race in general, he must make terrible decisions to save them all.

Trailer:

https://vimeo.com/232765519

Archief - Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (Channel 4)

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