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Amblin adapting Huxley’s Brave New World for Syfy
Steven Spielberg’s Amblin is creating a TV version of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World for Syfy, according to a story at The Hollywood Reporter. “Brave New World is one of […]
Steven Spielberg’s Amblin is creating a TV version of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World for Syfy, according to a story at The Hollywood Reporter.
“Brave New World is one of the most influential genre classics of all time,” Syfy president Dave Howe told THR. “Its provocative vision of a future gone awry remains as powerful and as timeless as ever. Promising to be a monumental television event, Brave New World is precisely the groundbreaking programming that is becoming the hallmark of Syfy.”
The original book was published in 1932 and is set in the 26th century, at a time when the World Government controls everything, and children are created in hatcheries. When a “savage” from outside the system is brought into this world, chaos ensues.
It has been adapted for TV twice previously – in 1980 with Keir Dullea, and then in 1988 with Leonard Nimoy and Peter Gallagher. The new version is from the team who created Taken for Syfy, with the script by Les Bohem
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An excellent book – I hope the adaption does it justice!