It is rumored that Ridley Scott is back on the TV adaptation of the 1962 Philip K. Dick novel, “Man in the High Castle”.  It sounds like it’s going to be a 4-hour event.  For those unaware, the Hugo Award winning novel follows life in North America sixteen years after a 1948 end of World War II where the Axis powers win.  Read more here.  I hope that this adaptation of a Dick story turns out better than some of the previous.  Here’s a quick list for those not familiar with just how many of his works have been used:

Blade Runner: based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Scanner Darkly: based on the story of the same name
Total Recall: based on We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
Minority Report: based on the short story of the same name
Next: based on The Golden Man
Paycheck: based on the story of the same name
The Adjustment Bureau: based on the story of the same name (pushed back to March 2011)

A number of other movies are more loosely based on his works.

Two previous television programs have aired based on Dick’s works: “The Cookie Lady” and “Martian Time Slip”.  I have a mixed opinion of some of these – particularly after I took a Science Fiction class in college that centered around Philip K. Dick’s works.  His works are very intriguing and his personal life was a mess…truly an interesting combination.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.