Ridley Scott’s Canceled 4-Half WWII Sci-Fi Collection Is Lastly Coming To Netflix 7 Years Later

Ridley Scott’s canceled four-season World Struggle II sci-fi collection, The Man within the Excessive Fortress, is lastly coming to Netflix seven years later.

Produced by Ridley Scott and based mostly on Philip Ok. Dick’s 1962 novel of the identical title, The Man within the Excessive Fortress aired on Prime Video for 4 seasons from 2015 to 2019 earlier than it was canceled by Amazon, with the fourth season serving as the ultimate shortened installment slightly than concluding with a deliberate fifth season.

Now, seven years later, all 4 seasons of Prime Video’s The Man within the Excessive Fortress are lastly coming to Netflix in america on March 11, as a part of the streaming service’s shock licensing cope with MGM. For now, all 4 seasons of The Man within the Excessive Fortress are nonetheless streaming on Prime Video and MGM+.

Created by Frank Spotnitz, The Man within the Excessive Fortress follows an alternate historical past during which the Axis powers, together with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, have received World Struggle II and rule the globe, and a younger girl discovers a mysterious movie that will maintain the important thing to toppling the totalitarian regimes.

The Man within the Excessive Fortress‘s solid consists of Alexa Davalos, Rupert Evans, Luke Kleintank, DJ Qualls, Joel de la Fuente, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Rufus Sewell, Brennan Brown, Callum Keith Rennie, Bella Heathcote, Chelah Horsdal, Michael Gaston, Jason O’Mara, Frances Turner, and plenty of extra.

Over the course of its four-season run, The Man within the Excessive Fortress obtained principally optimistic critiques for its intricate narrative and immersive world-building, leading to a median 84% Rotten Tomatoes rating from critics, coupled with a 79% viewers rating.

Whereas technically a significant success, turning into Prime Video’s most-popular unique collection upon its premiere in 2019, it didn’t obtain the widespread cultural affect that Amazon had initially hoped for, resulting in a sense that it underperformed relative to its excessive price and excessive expectations. Nonetheless, The Man within the Excessive Fortress is about to develop into much more standard by streaming on Netflix.