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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It’ll probably just be a series of sex-and-drugs scenes with no trace of the underlying themes.
Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace in 1958.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TQZ-2iMUR0
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