{"id":87158,"date":"2016-05-11T09:10:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T08:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=87158"},"modified":"2016-05-11T09:10:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T08:10:35","slug":"philip-k-dick-anthology-tv-series-signs-up-breaking-bad-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/philip-k-dick-anthology-tv-series-signs-up-breaking-bad-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip K Dick anthology TV series signs up Breaking Bad star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many of Philip K Dick&#8217;s novels have made it to the screen in one way or another. <em><strong>Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep<\/strong><\/em>,<em><strong> Minority Report<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>The Man In The High Castle<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>A Scanner Darkly<\/strong> <\/em>&#8211; the list goes on and on, and we&#8217;re not even including the ones that haven&#8217;t worked out so well. Yet these represent just a fraction of his fictional output: he wrote numerous short stories, most of which haven&#8217;t come anywhere close to an adaptation. Until now, as the previously shelved anthology series <strong><em>Electric Dreams: The World Of Philip K Dick <\/em><\/strong>is back on, having cast its first actor, and it&#8217;s a big coup: Bryan Cranston.<\/p>\n<p>The man needs no introduction, the former <em><strong>Malcolm In The Middle<\/strong><\/em> star&#8217;s career having taken off big time after his iconic role in<em><strong> Breaking Bad<\/strong><\/em>, and it&#8217;s good to see that the show has his calibre of talent on board. There&#8217;s no word on who he&#8217;s playing yet (or which stories are being adapted, for that matter), but it&#8217;s nice to see him involved. And he seems excited too: &#8220;This is an electric dream come true,&#8221; said Cranston. &#8220;We are so thrilled to be able to explore and expand upon the evergreen themes found in the incredible work of this literary master.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87159\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-87159 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/474488.jpg\" alt=\"474488\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/474488.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/474488-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/474488-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/474488-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/474488-616x308.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bryan Cranston will star in the new Philip K Dick anthology series<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As well as starring, Cranston will co-produce the series alongside Ronald Moore (<em><strong>Battlestar Galactica<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Outlander<\/strong><\/em>), Isa Dick Hackett (<em><strong>The Adjustment Bureau<\/strong><\/em>) and Michael Dinner (<em><strong>Justified<\/strong><\/em>), with Moore saying of Cranston&#8217;s casting in a press release: &#8220;As a longtime fan of Philip K Dick\u2019s work, it\u2019s a tremendous honour and thrill to be part of this series. His short stories are a treasure trove of material for artists to draw from, and I think this will be a very exciting project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A release date for <em>Electric Dreams: The World Of Philip K Dick<\/em> is yet to be announced. For more news about the biggest movies, pick up the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric Dreams: The World Of Philip K Dick is back on track<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":87160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[5117,801],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PhilipKDick-themanwhorememberedtheFUTURE.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}