Huxley’s Brave New World Coming to Big Screen
We’ve seen every other sci-fi classic transfered to the silver screen so it was only a matter of time before Aldous Huxley’s brilliant “Brave New World” made it to the chopping block. Thankfully, this adaptation appears to be in good hands.
Huxley’s 1932 novel (trust me, it doesn’t read like it dates back to the 30s) takes place in a dystopian society where babies are biologically engineered and “hatched”, sleep learning plays a huge role in education and class segregation is law. This is no “1984″ (though many comparisons have been drawn between the two) but Huxley’s novel was and continues to be a visionary masterwork and only the tip of his extensive and brilliant writing.
Universal Studios has been trying to make the film for years but according to the Times Online, the studio’s wrangling over the terms of Huxley’s will have finally been settled and the long dormant project is finally moving ahead. Visionary director Ridley Scott has long been interested in directing the project and according to the article, the film has yet another big name championing for it: Leonardo DiCaprio who will play the key role of John the Savage.
Sounds like the dust of the legalities is just starting to clear but we’re likely to start seeing some major announcements coming from Universal in the next few months. At this point I’m curious to see who will step up to the challenge of writing the screenplay and more importantly, who they’ll cast in some of the major roles.
But I’m not in...
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“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
Lastly, I wonder how close this will come to the release date of Darabont’s Fahrenheit 451?
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