Syfy to adapt Brave New World with Grant Morrison and Brian Taylor
Syfy are currently adapting Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World for television and have turned to Grant Morrison and Brian Taylor to scribe the show.
The novel opens in London in AF 632 (AD 2540 in the Gregorian calendar) and follows two main characters Lenina Crowne and Bernard Marx.
Lenina is a hatchery worker, is socially accepted and contented, but Bernard, a psychologist in the Directorate of Hatcheries and Conditioning, is not. He is shorter in stature than the average of his Alpha caste—a quality shared by the lower castes, which gives him an inferiority complex. His intelligence and his work withhypnopaedia allow him to understand, and disapprove of, the methods by which society is sustained. Courting disaster, he is vocal and arrogant about his differences. Bernard is mocked by other Alphas because of his stature, as well as for his individualistic tendencies, and is threatened with exile to Iceland because of his nonconformity.
In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, Robert McCrum writing for The Observer included Brave New World chronologically at number 53 in “the top 100 greatest novels of all time”, and the novel was listed at number 87 on the BBC’s survey The Big Read.
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