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Will we see a new film adaptation of 1984 soon?

posted 4 years ago by PrimeMinisterX (8309)
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I learned today that 1984 will go into the public domain in the US next year. That means, of course, that studios will be free to adapt it without paying a penny for the rights.

I have always thought it strange that a story as well-known and interesting as 1984 has only been adapted twice (that I know of), and hasn't been re-adapted in over 35 years.

Now that the book is about to hit the public domain State-side, do you think we'll see a new, big-budget film from Hollywood? Do you think, perhaps, the screenplay is already being worked on?

[–] Theman (1070) 4 years ago

I like the 1984 1984 but I would like to see a new take on it.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12384) 4 years ago

Who needs a film? We're almost living it right now!

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8309) 4 years ago

Having just finished the book last night, I can confirm this. I really was stunned by how relevant the story is to our own time.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12384) 4 years ago

I remember hearing a joke on the 90s "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" about it. I mean, you have these 90s teens who had to read this for school, and Sabrina says during lunch, "I don't understand why we had to read 1984 when George Orwell got so much wrong!" The joke is, she took everything he wrote literally about the actual year 1984 (which was actually a good year, according to people alive at the time), and totally missed the point of his political predictions of the future. I honestly think he just chose a random year far enough ahead of his own time and used that for his book.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8309) 4 years ago

I'm sure. Maybe he liked the sound of 1984 and just thought it had a good ring to it.

For me, there are three books written right around the same time that compose a kind of spiritual trilogy: 1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451. All are excellent books with similar thrusts to their messages, and all are still vitally relevant to the age that we currently find ourselves in.