Japanese San Francisco and German New York. The Man in the High Castle by Ridley Scott

Amazon Studios has ordered the pilot of a drama series based on the novel “The Man in the High Castle” by science fiction writer Philip Dick. The script for the first episode was written by Frank Spotnitz of the Fox X-Files team, Deadline reports.

Philip Dick concocted an alternative story: The Axis won World War II and divided the world among themselves. Japan got the west coast of the United States, Germany withdrew the states in the east of the country. Hitler is dying and relations between the victorious powers are riddled with mistrust. Several storylines of the novel intersect in 1962 in occupied America. Dick won the Hugo Award for the book.

The Man in the High Castle was first taken by Syfy: in February 2013, the cable channel announced that it would direct a four-episode miniseries based on the book. Frank Spotnitz and Scott Free Productions also worked on the project. The trial series will be directed by David Semel (CBS pilot In Sight).