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The Man In The High Castle (TV Series)
''The Man in the High Castle'' is an American Utopian and dystopian fiction, dystopian alternate history television series created for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video, depicting a Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universe where the Axis powers of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan rule the world after Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II, their victory in World War II. It was created by Frank Spotnitz and produced by Amazon Studios, Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions (with Scott serving as executive producer), Headline Pictures, Electric Shepherd Productions, and Big Light Productions. It is based on Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, 1962 novel. The pilot premiered in January 2015, and Amazon (company), Amazon ordered a ten-episode season the following month which was released in November. A second season of ten episodes premiered in December 2016, and a third season was released on October 5, 2018. The fourth and final season premiered on No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternate History
Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply A.H.) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history. As conjecture based upon historical fact, alternate history stories propose "what if?" scenarios about pivotal events in human history, and present outcomes very different from the historical record. Some alternate histories are considered a subgenre of science fiction, or historical fiction. Since the 1950s, as a subgenre of science fiction, some alternative history stories have featured the tropes of time travel between histories, the psychic awareness of the existence of an alternative universe by the inhabitants of a given universe, and time travel that divides history into various timestreams. Definition Often described as a subgenre of science fiction, alternative history is a genre of fiction wherein the author speculates upon how the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callum Keith Rennie
Callum Keith Rennie (born 14 September 1960) is a Canadian actor, based in British Columbia. His breakthrough role was as punk rocker Billy Tallent in the music mockumentary ''Hard Core Logo'' (1996), followed by a starring role as Det. Stanley Raymond Kowalski on the third and fourth seasons of the television series ''Due South'' (1997–99). He then won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor, Genie Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the Don McKellar film Last Night (1998 film), ''Last Night'' (1998). Rennie's television roles include Leoben_Conoy#Number_Two_(Leoben_Conoy), Leoben Conoy / Number 2 on ''Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series), Battlestar Galactica'' (2003–09), Lew Ashby on ''Californication (TV series), Californication'' (2008–13), Rick Felder on ''The Killing (U.S. TV series), The Killing'' (2011–12), Gary Connell on ''The Man in the High Castle (TV series), The Man in the High Castle'' (2016), Karl Malus on Jessica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David W
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE to commemorate a victory over two enemy kings, contains the phrase (), which is translated as " House of David" by most scholars. The Mesha Stele, erected by King Mesha of Moab in the 9th century BCE, may also refer to the "House of David", although this is disputed. According to Jewish works such as the '' Seder Olam Rabbah'', '' Seder Olam Zutta'', and '' Sefer ha-Qabbalah'' (all written over a thousand years later), David ascended the throne as the king of Judah in 885 BCE. Apart from this, all that is known of David comes from biblical literature, the historicity of which has been extensively challenged,Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel; by Isaac Kalimi; pag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Higgins
Jean Higgins is an American television and film producer. She has worked on the series '' Lost'' and '' CSI: Miami''. She won an Emmy Award for outstanding drama series at the September 2005 ceremony for her work on the first season of ''Lost''. She also won a Producers Guild of America Award for television producer of the year in episodic for the first season. Career She began her career as a producer working in feature films as a line producer and associate producer. Her first film was '' Movers & Shakers'' in 1985. She was a producer for the 1999 film '' Arlington Road''. She became a line producer for the first season of '' CSI: Miami'' in 2002. She left the series at the end of the first season in 2003. She joined the crew of '' Lost'' as a co-producer on the pilot episode in 2004. She returned as a co-producer for the first season and was promoted to line producer mid-way through the season. Higgins and the producers won an Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Mackinnon
Stewart Mackinnon is a Scottish film and television producer, founder and former CEO of Headline Pictures. He produced the film Quartet, the international Emmy winning television film Peter And Wendy, and the Amazon Studios series The Man in the High Castle. In 2020, he founded Circle Pictures. Artist Mackinnon studied at the Edinburgh College of Art where he was awarded an Andrew Grant Scholarship before moving to London to attend the Royal College of Art where he won the Drawing Prize and contributed to and co-edited the RCA magazine Ark in the 1970s. Mackinnon designed the artwork for the British TV movie ''The War Game'' and went on to draw illustrations for Oz, Nova, Time Out, the Edinburg Review, Spare Rib, Ambit, The Times, Sunday Times and Management Today, and was featured in the Radical Illustrators issue of Illustrators magazine (no.38) published in 1981 by the Association of Illustrators in which co-editor George Snow singled out Mackinnon as “perhaps the great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isa Dick Hackett
Isa Dick Hackett (born; Isolde Freya Dick; March 15, 1967) is an American producer and writer for Amazon who helped produce '' The Man in the High Castle'', '' Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams'', and '' The Adjustment Bureau'', all of which are based on works by her father, Philip K. Dick. Biography Isa Dick Hackett was born Isolde Freya Dick in Greenbrae, California, to mother Nancy Hackett and father Philip K. Dick, the American science fiction writer. Hackett has helped write or produce several film adaptations of her father's works. Hackett oversees Electric Shepherd Productions with her siblings. In the aftermath of revelations about sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement in 2017, Hackett told ''The Hollywood Reporter'' that Roy Price, the programming chief at Amazon, had sexually harassed her at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con San Diego Comic-Con is a comic book convention and multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, Cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer. He directs films in the Science fiction film, science fiction, Crime film, crime, and historical drama, historical epic genres, with an atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. He ranks among the List of highest-grossing film directors, highest-grossing directors, with his films grossing a cumulative $5 billion worldwide. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Ridley Scott, many accolades, including the BAFTA Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in 2018, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He was Knight Bachelor, knighted by Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II in 2003, and appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, Knight Grand Cross by Charles III, King Charles III in 2024. An alumnus of the Royal College of Art in London, Scott began his career in television as a designer and director before moving into advertising as a director o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominic Lewis
Dominic Alexander Charles Lewis (born January 29, 1985) is a British film and television composer and singer. He first worked on various music departments for film projects before transitioning into more solo work starting with ''Free Birds''. His other credits include ''The Man in the High Castle (TV series), The Man in the High Castle'', ''DuckTales (2017 TV series), DuckTales'', ''Peter Rabbit (film), Peter Rabbit'', ''Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway'', ''Monsters at Work'', ''Bullet Train (film), Bullet Train'' and ''The Fall Guy (2024 film), The Fall Guy''. He also served as the singing voice for Lurch (The Addams Family), Lurch in ''The Addams Family 2'' and for Donald Duck in the ''DuckTales'' reboot. Life and career Lewis was born and raised in London, London, England. Both his parents are musicians and he began learning the cello at age three. He also played the piano and guitar, sang in choirs, formed rock bands, and wrote songs while growing up. He cites his early influenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Jackman
Henry Pryce Jackman (born 1 June 1974) is an English film and television music composer, music conductor and music arranger. He composed music for films such as '' Kong: Skull Island'', '' X-Men: First Class'', ''Puss in Boots'', ''Monsters vs. Aliens'', '' Captain Phillips'', '' Kick-Ass'', '' Kick-Ass 2'', ''Turbo'', ''Pixels'', ''Ron's Gone Wrong'', '' Smurfs'', ''The Interview,'' '' Pokémon: Detective Pikachu'' and five Walt Disney Animation Studios films, as well as video games such as '' Uncharted 4: A Thief's End'', '' Uncharted: The Lost Legacy'' and ''Just Cause 3''. He has also collaborated with film directors such as Don Hall, Chris Miller, Rob Letterman, Matthew Vaughn, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Raman Hui, Edward Zwick, Russo brothers, Jake Kasdan, Sam Hargrave and Rich Moore. Life and career Jackman was born in Hillingdon, London. He studied classical music at St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School, Eton College, Framlingham College and New College, Oxford, Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanette Olsson
Jeanette Olsson is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She started working as a session singer in Stockholm in the late 1990s. Olsson has provided accompanying and background vocals on tracks by numerous top-selling artists such as Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Celine Dion, Ariana Grande, Steps and many others. Olsson signed her first publishing deal in 2001 with Kobalt Label Services, with her songs recorded by such artists as Kelly Rowland and Kate Ryan. Olsson moved from Stockholm to Los Angeles in 2010, continuing to sing backing vocals. She co-wrote and sang the title track for Disneynature movie '' Wings of Life''. She has sung on commercials for Fiat 500, Gillette, Sears and others. Olsson's is one of the voices on the movie scores for '' Soulsurfer'' and '' Rock of Ages'', and for the Mickey's Soundsational Parade that premiered in 2011 at Disneyland California. Starting in 2011, she became one of the backing-vocalists on the TV show ''Glee''. Olsson sang a cover ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edelweiss (song)
"Edelweiss" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music''. It is named after the edelweiss (''Leontopodium nivale''), a white flower found high in the Alps. The song was created for the 1959 Broadway production of ''The Sound of Music'', as a song for the character Captain Georg von Trapp. In the stage musical and its 1965 film adaptation, Captain von Trapp and his family sing this song during the concert near the end of Act II, as well as a statement of Austrian patriotism in the face of the pressure put upon him to join the navy of Nazi Germany following the ''Anschluss'' (German annexation of Austria). It is also Captain von Trapp's subliminal goodbye to his beloved homeland, using the flower as a symbol of his loyalty to Austria. In the film version, the song is additionally sung by the Captain earlier in the film when he rediscovers music with his children. This was the final song of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical collaboratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason O'Mara
Jason O'Mara (born 6 August 1972) is an Irish-American actor. He has starred in American television series '' Terra Nova'' (2011), '' Vegas'' (2012–13), '' Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' (2016–17) and '' The Man in the High Castle'' (2018–19). For his performance in '' The Siege of Jadotville'' (2016), he won an Irish Film & Television Award for Best Supporting Actor. O'Mara also provided the voice of Batman in the DC Animated Movie Universe (2013–20) and Zeus on the Netflix series '' Blood of Zeus'' (2020–present). Career O'Mara performed with The Royal Shakespeare Company. His theatre work in London and Dublin included '' The Jew of Malta'' and '' Popcorn'', and he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 2002 at the Irish Theatre Awards for his portrayal of John in Neil LaBute's ''Bash''. He appeared in Harold Pinter's '' The Homecoming'' in London and Dublin as well as Lincoln Center in New York. He had lead roles in other series, including '' The Agency'', '' Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
