Adapting it, on the other hand, proves far trickier. A glossy take on the material filled with TV-MA-friendly amounts of explosive violence and tightly choreographed orgies, it proves that Huxley’s book can be easily mined for concepts and incidents. Instead, it’s coming to us once again as an ongoing series, one of the flagships of Peacock, NBC’s new streaming service (though this Brave New World was developed first for Syfy then for USA before finding its current home). Then, for a few years in the late ’00s, Brave New World seemed likely to become a feature film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Ridley Scott.
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(What would have been the four-hour version, running just over three hours without commercials, eventually aired on BBC and is now the easiest cut to find.) The network returned to Huxley’s World State again in 1998, with a TV movie starring Peter Gallagher and Leonard Nimoy. A version of it, anyway-the miniseries had shrunk from six, to four, then finally three hours and been reduced to a TV movie. NBC found out that adapting Brave New World was tricky indeed-and not for the last time.Īfter pulling Brave New World from its schedule several times, NBC finally aired it in March 1980. And perhaps inspired by the Star Wars–stoked interest in all things science fiction, she also commissioned an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian landmark Brave New World-despite it being, as a profile of Barkley described at the time, “a tricky property everyone in Hollywood had been afraid of.” Starring 2001: A Space Odyssey’s Keir Dullea and Harold and Maude’s Bud Cort, it was set to debut in 1979 and run for six hours across several nights. By 1978, she’d locked down the rights to James Michener’s Centennial, recruited Natalie Wood for a six-part adaptation of From Here to Eternity, and picked up James Clavell’s Shogun for a lavish production destined to become a ratings sensation in 1980. There's also her potential new role in charge, maybe alongside Mustafa.In the back half of the 1970s, when miniseries adaptations like Rich Man, Poor Man and Roots became runaway hits, a great book could make or break a TV career-so the influential NBC producer Deanne Barkley scooped up as many great books as she could. Season two could explore Lenina and John's relationship, could they get things back on track? Alden Ehrenreich revealed there was a version of the ending where they did end up together. I saw David the other night (showrunner) and he's literally told no one." Harry Lloyd (Bernard) told ET: "You assumed some kind of Indra, but no one knows.
But why would the savages' current leader Sheila immediately recognise it? It could also be Soma, or the recipe for the drugs, as it's suggested they're needed to set up a society with Indra. BUT WHAT'S IN THE BOX? Well, Indra, we assume. It seems likely the savages will harness Indra with Bernard as their leader. Brave New World ending explained - what's in the box?
However, it definitely opens up territory for a season two, though such a thing has yet to be confirmed. Indra was a new element added to the plot especially for the remake, and ironically that story is probably one of the show's weakest points, as it's unnecessarily convoluted. We then cut to Lenina, far away, surveying a green and modern landscape – which doesn't look like New London – she looks outwards before smiling. However, it's soon revealed he's not actually with her, as he's using a 'Sprite', a piece of technology projecting Lenina, and he's living alone in a run-down city, perhaps beneath New London. Mustafa warns Indra is still out there, like a lost and angry hurt child, and warns she could do bad things.įinally, we see John living a seemingly idyllic life with Lenina, similar to the one he described when they first got together. Lenina Crowne is seen speaking with Mustafa, presumably being offered the role as the new Director of Stability, or something similar, as she asks "Why me?" and Mustafa tells her because she's "different".
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