Posted on 05/06/2015 8:30:42 AM PDT by C19fan
The Emmy-winning team behind Syfy's Taken is reuniting for another science fiction classic. Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television is adapting Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World as a scripted series for the NBCUniversal-owned cable network, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Brave New World — ranked fifth among the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th Century by Modern Library — is set in a world without poverty, war or disease. Humans are given mind-altering drugs, free sex and rampant consumerism are the order of the day, and people no longer reproduce but are genetically engineered in "hatcheries." Those who won’t conform are forced onto "reservations," until one of the "savages" challenges the system, threatening the entire social order.
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Just re-read it a couple of months ago........
It’s amazing how accurate he was...............
Spielberg being left of center expect BNW to be far from what Huxley wrote.
The casting should be interesting
where could anyone find enough actors in hollywood to fill the roles for THIS movie??
What are the chances spielberg will twist it around to reflect his liberal viewpoint?
Huxley wasn’t warning of the Brave New World. He was celebrating its inevitable arrival.
The man was one of the most evil human beings of the 20th century.
Who will play ‘The Savage’?..............
No one makes worse movies or can ruin something classic like Spielberg.
Huxley wrote Orwell congratulating him on “1984”. He stated:
“Within the next generation I believe that the world’s leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley
That does not seem celebrating the world in “Brave New World”.
The government will be portrayed as a repressive conservative one and the savage will be the lone brave progressive to stand against it.
Sad that the magazine has to explain the story to a generation of young schmucks who never read it.
“About 99.5 per cent of the entire population of the planet are as stupid and philistine as the great masses of the English. The important thing, it seems to me, is not to attack the 99.5 per cent – except for exercise – but to try to see that the 0.5 per cent survives, keeps its quality up to the highest possible level and, if possible, dominates the rest.”
As for narco-hypnotism, yes, he was very much a proponent of it and wrote extensively about it. That fact that he sees that which he forcefully advocated for as an "instrument of government" should tell you all you need to know about the totalitarian tendencies of the eugenicist and Fabian socialist. He was as wicked as they come. Right up there with Crowley.
Too bad Clint Eastwood isn’t the director.
The 1980s BBC version was very good, contrasting the raising of John the Savage with that of Bernard Marx, until they meet, at which point it follows the novel exactly.
#5 That would be 100% chance.
I agree - Huxley was practically a prophet. We are heading for such a “Brave New World” - and like so many on “Soma” - the sheep are more than happy to ignore the ugly underbelly.
1980 version broadcast by the BBC. (Three hours long)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlb1bdU-G7o
1998 version. (One hour, 17 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-eYYBdr1G0
As I understand it, The Hunger Games is a popular book series among the current generation. The books depict the heroic individual against the state.
Most people get squirmy when they see sci-fi flicks like Soylent Green, The Giver, Hunger Games and Brave New World
( thinking it could never happen ), yet they don’t realize they are living in those very same embryonic times.
As they build these nirvanas they are repulsed when confronted by it on the big screen. Another reason why reasoning with them is futile.
Update it for modern PC times.
Savages will be the brave Occupoop Wall Street nuts
Soma...Well of course... Replaced with pot.
His Fordship will be replaced with His Kochness
All the happy people will be mindless gun clinging Chritians
they will just screw it up
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