Thank you “Black Mirror”, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Amazon is behind a new anthology series, “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams”, a 10-part sci-fi anthology series that will feature stand-alone episodes each inspired by the acclaimed author’s short stories. It was commissioned by Amazon for the U.S. and Channel 4 for the U.K.
Production is now underway in London on the series being executive produced by Bryan Cranston.
BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee Timothy Spall (“The Enfield Haunting”, Sweeney Todd) has joined the first episode, says THR, explaining that he’s the lead in “The Commuter”, playing an unassuming employee at a train station who is alarmed to discover that a number of daily commuters are taking the train to a town that shouldn’t exist.
Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) wrote the episode based on Dick’s short story, with Tom Harper (War & Peace, Peaky Blinders) on directing duties.
Hayley Squires stars, alongside Rebecca Manley (This is England), Rudi Dharmalingham (Fantastic Beasts), Tuppence Middleton (War & Peace), Anne Reid (Last Tango in Halifax), Ann Akin, Tom Brooke, Nicole Agada, Marko Leht, Matthew Raymond and Naveed Khan are also joining the cast.