Orwell's "1984" New Film Adaptation

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/orwells-1984-film-adaptation-imagine

Orwell's '1984' Getting New Film Adaptation at Imagine Entertainment (Exclusive)

Shepard Fairey, the street artist who is perhaps best known for creating the Barack Obama Hope poster, was instrumental in bringing the project to Imagine and LBI Entertainment and may take a producer role.

George Orwell’s seminal literary work 1984 could be getting a new movie adaptation.

Imagine Entertainment, the production house run by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, and LBI Entertainment, the banner run by Julie Yorn, are teaming up to develop a new take on the 20th century classic.

The book is set in a dystopian society in a perpetual state of war, which in turn leads to a state of paranoia. Propaganda, surveillance, mind control and cult of personality—all concepts seen in totalitarian and fascist states such as Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union—were taken to new levels in the book, originally written in 1948 and published in 1949. The story centers on a man named Winston Smith who works for a government branch named the Ministry of Truth, where he alters facts and histories but secretly harbors desires of rebellion (as well as desires of a forbidden love affair). The ideas in the novel became hugely influential in the worlds of politics and art, with the author’s name eventually becoming an adjective (Orwellian).

Shepard Fairey, the street artist perhaps best known for creating the Barack Obama "Hope" poster, was instrumental in bringing the project to Imagine and LBI and might take some sort of producer role once the deals shake out.
Imagine and Fairey were pursuing Orwell's estate for the rights to 1984 and discovered that Yorn was simultaneously pursuing the rights. The two companies then decided to pair up.

The producers are out to writers to find a take on the material before setting it up at a studio.

The book has been adapted several times in TV and movies, the last time being, natch, in 1984 in a version directed by Michael Radford and starring John Hurt, Richard Burton and Suzanna Hamilton.

 

[Octoberist]

Maybe with Shepard on board, this adaptation might have some interesting visuals.

 

[Silvermoth]

There's almost always been an adaption of this in the works. It's been ages since anything actually happened with it.

Still, I would be interested. I adore 1984. It's my favourite classic.

 

[redhawk23]

While 1984 is one of my all time favorites, and depending on my mood on any given day I'm given to call it my absolute favorite, I just wonder how necessary this is. The weird soundtrack struggle issues asside, I think the 1984 version of 1984 is about as good as an adaptation as we could ever hope for.

Frankly I'd be far more interested in a new adaptation of Fahrenheit 451.