Despite being published over fifty years ago, the problems identified in Brave New World Revisited are still startlingly relevant, lending a chilling creditability to Aldous Huxley's unsettling predictions. Brave New World Revisited condemns symptoms of modern life such as overpopulation, propaganda and extreme government control while providing a staunch defence of individualism. In this twelve-part essay, Huxley argues that society is moving toward his dystopian vision even faster than he had originally assumed, and provides his own suggestions on how to bring an end to this decadent decline. Written almost thirty years later, Brave New World Revisited is a re-evaluation of his predictions based on the changes he had witnessed in the meantime. “Brave New World” joins the “Jason Bourne” spinoff “Treadstone” as the latest straight-to-series order for USA Network.When Aldous Huxley wrote his famous novel Brave New World, he did so with the sincere belief that the dystopian world he created was a true possibility given the direction of the social, political and economic world order.
“Brave New World” is from Universal Content Productions, in association with Amblin Television. “Black Mirror: San Junipero” director Owen Harris will direct the first episode. Wiener will also serve as series showrunner. Taylor will executive produce on the first episode. Wiener and Morrison along with Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, co-presidents of Amblin Television, will executive produce. The series was adapted for television by David Wiener, with Grant Morrison and Brian Taylor. The three become entwined in a fraught relationship that awakens them to the dangers of their own conditioning.Īlso Read: Rosario Dawson-Led 'Briarpatch' Anthology Lands Series Order at USA Network John’s arrival in the New World soon threatens to disrupt its utopian harmony, leaving Bernard and Lenina to grapple with the repercussions. Bernard and Lenina are rescued by John the Savage, who escapes with them back to New London. Curious to explore life beyond the strictures of their society, the two New Worlders embark on a vacation to the Savage Lands, where they become embroiled in a harrowing and violent rebellion. USA Network has given a straight-to-series order for an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.”īased on Huxley’s 1932 novel, “Brave New World” imagines a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself.Īs citizens of New London, Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne have only ever known a rigid social order, a perfect pharmaceutical called Soma, and a culture of instant gratification and ubiquitous sex.
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