it happened here

Our 50th anniversary screening of It Happened Here is the top film event for this weekend on the Time Out London blog.  Have a look.

UK 1964. Directed by Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo. With Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw, Bart Allison.

Directors Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo join us for a special 50th Anniversary screening of his film It Happened Here. The film imagines what Britain would have been like had the Nazi invasion and occupation during World War II been successful. Andrew Mollo’s father was one of the designers who designed the Art Deco auditorium when the cinema reopened as The Rex in 1938.

Tickets on sale now.

Enjoy a free behind the scenes tour of The Phoenix with pre-booked tickets for It Happened Here.  Limited spaces available for the tour. Tour booking through our box office either in person or on 020 8444 6789.

Sunday 25 May at 1.30pm. Tickets £7. Tour times: 11.00am, 11.45am and 12.30pm.Amazon Studios may actually have a new hit in their hands with the premiere of The Man in the High Castle. After all, the book-to-TV-screen adaptation produced by Ridley Scott has all the right elements to it — it’s an intelligent show, it’s lively and fun, polished and has a five-star user rating under its sleeve [its pilot episode was one of the many being screened by the site’s Prime members].

The Man in the High Castle is based on a 1962 novel written by Philip K. Dick of the same name. Dick is the same author of Blade Runner which Ridley Scott also converted into a film way back in 1982 with Harrison Ford playing the lead role.

The novel and the TV show focuses about a world where an alternate history exists; instead of the Allies winning the Second World War, it has the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese forces coming out victors from it.

Among Dick’s works, The Man in the High Castle was the only one to bag the Sci-Fi genre’s distinguished recognition — the Hugo Award. Scott started developing the concept for the TV adaptation of the book way back in 2010. Startlingly, this would be the first screen adaptation of the award-winning story.

America as The Man in the High Castle depicted it if the Nazis and Japanese won WWII.

The Man in the High Castle takes place in 1962 in an America conquered and divided by the Nazis and the Japs. In this alternate place, the Rockies up to the Atlantic is part of the Greater Nazi Reich while the Pacific Coast is known as the Japanese Pacific States.