SYFY AND STEVEN SPIELBERG’S AMBLIN TELEVISION REUNITING TO DEVELOP ALDOUS HUXLEY’S CLASSIC NOVEL BRAVE NEW WORLD
Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey and Les Bohem Will Executive Produce Series With Bohem Writing Screenplay
Universal Cable Productions to Serve as Studio
NEW YORK – May 5, 2015 – Adding to its growing roster of major productions featuring science fiction’s most acclaimed franchises, Syfy is reuniting with Emmy® Award-winning Amblin Television to develop a scripted series based on Aldous Huxley’s classic novel Brave New World.
Syfy and Amblin previously collaborated on Steven Spielberg Presents: Taken, which won a 2003 Emmy® for Best Miniseries, as well as nominations in six other categories.
Brave New World is set in a world without poverty, war or disease. In this world, humans are given mind-altering drugs, free sex and rampant consumerism are the order of the day, and people no longer reproduce but are genetically engineered in “hatcheries.” Those who won’t conform are forced onto “reservations” – until one of these “savages” challenges the system, threatening the entire social order. First published in 1932, Brave New World was ranked fifth among the 100 best English language novels of the 20th Century by Modern Library.
Said Dave Howe, President, Syfy & Chiller: “Brave New World is one of the most influential genre classics of all time. Its provocative vision of a future gone awry remains as powerful and as timeless as ever. Promising to be a monumental television event, Brave New World is precisely the groundbreaking programming that is becoming the hallmark of Syfy.”
Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of Amblin Television (The Americans, Falling Skies, Under the Dome) will be executive producers. Les Bohem (Steven Spielberg Presents:Taken) will write the screenplay and also executive produce.
Universal Cable Productions will serve as the studio.
“We’ve been looking for an opportunity to reunite with Les, Bonnie Hammer and Dave Howe, ever since our collaboration on Taken over a decade ago, and Brave New World is just the project we’ve been waiting for, to bring the band back together,” said Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, Co-Presidents, Amblin Television. “We’re thrilled to be working with Dawn Olmstead, with whom we produced The Whispers for ABC, and under the leadership of Jeff Wachtel and Universal Cable Productions, we know the project is in just the right hands.”
“Brave New World is science fiction at its best – a brilliant, poignant story that continues to fascinate and illuminate,” said Jeff Wachtel, President and Chief Content Officer, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. “And there is simply no better team than Amblin to bring this exquisite project to life.”
Brave New World is the latest high profile scripted project to be developed and produced by Syfy; others include the recently-announced series pickup of The Magicians, based on Lev Grossman’s best-selling books; the 10-part series The Expanse, airing December 2015 and starring Thomas Jane; Arthur C. Clarke’s epic mini-series Childhood’s End, also set to premiere this December; Gale Anne Hurd’s 13-episode thriller Hunters; David Goyer’s Superman prequel, Krypton; and Incorporated, a pilot from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey and Les Bohem Will Executive Produce Series With Bohem Writing Screenplay
Universal Cable Productions to Serve as Studio
NEW YORK – May 5, 2015 – Adding to its growing roster of major productions featuring science fiction’s most acclaimed franchises, Syfy is reuniting with Emmy® Award-winning Amblin Television to develop a scripted series based on Aldous Huxley’s classic novel Brave New World.
Syfy and Amblin previously collaborated on Steven Spielberg Presents: Taken, which won a 2003 Emmy® for Best Miniseries, as well as nominations in six other categories.
Brave New World is set in a world without poverty, war or disease. In this world, humans are given mind-altering drugs, free sex and rampant consumerism are the order of the day, and people no longer reproduce but are genetically engineered in “hatcheries.” Those who won’t conform are forced onto “reservations” – until one of these “savages” challenges the system, threatening the entire social order. First published in 1932, Brave New World was ranked fifth among the 100 best English language novels of the 20th Century by Modern Library.
Said Dave Howe, President, Syfy & Chiller: “Brave New World is one of the most influential genre classics of all time. Its provocative vision of a future gone awry remains as powerful and as timeless as ever. Promising to be a monumental television event, Brave New World is precisely the groundbreaking programming that is becoming the hallmark of Syfy.”
Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of Amblin Television (The Americans, Falling Skies, Under the Dome) will be executive producers. Les Bohem (Steven Spielberg Presents:Taken) will write the screenplay and also executive produce.
Universal Cable Productions will serve as the studio.
“We’ve been looking for an opportunity to reunite with Les, Bonnie Hammer and Dave Howe, ever since our collaboration on Taken over a decade ago, and Brave New World is just the project we’ve been waiting for, to bring the band back together,” said Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, Co-Presidents, Amblin Television. “We’re thrilled to be working with Dawn Olmstead, with whom we produced The Whispers for ABC, and under the leadership of Jeff Wachtel and Universal Cable Productions, we know the project is in just the right hands.”
“Brave New World is science fiction at its best – a brilliant, poignant story that continues to fascinate and illuminate,” said Jeff Wachtel, President and Chief Content Officer, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment. “And there is simply no better team than Amblin to bring this exquisite project to life.”
Brave New World is the latest high profile scripted project to be developed and produced by Syfy; others include the recently-announced series pickup of The Magicians, based on Lev Grossman’s best-selling books; the 10-part series The Expanse, airing December 2015 and starring Thomas Jane; Arthur C. Clarke’s epic mini-series Childhood’s End, also set to premiere this December; Gale Anne Hurd’s 13-episode thriller Hunters; David Goyer’s Superman prequel, Krypton; and Incorporated, a pilot from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
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Amazing book, but a show based on it should not be on that crappy network.
ReplyDeletegross but interesting
ReplyDeleteHow about some Haven news . Like when is it coming back ?
ReplyDeleteprobably fall 2015 im guessing
ReplyDeleteseems like more a show for starz, syfy will just screw it up anyway.
ReplyDeleteOr on any Cable channel.
ReplyDeletesure, though don't think I've heard of anything good on showtime or FX recently, but I would not put them in syfy category. Just really the only remotely good tv on syfy presently is not really produced by them anymore. But I don't mind AMC or HBO. Syfy just may as well be on network television these days.
ReplyDeleteI love the book, so I don't know wethere I'm exited or I dread it... I think this could've been an awesome event series on HBO, but I'm not sure SyFy can do it justice.
ReplyDeleteSyfy is not a crappy network, considering their balance of good programming and terrible programming is not too far off from every other cable network. And at least they're trying to do something about it.
ReplyDeleteI really like the ideas and concepts and the base story but god damn that book sucked ass and was a total chore to get through, and I LOVE READING. (But then again, nearly all the "classics" are extremely overrated which is why I have stopped reading them.) Hopefully the show keeps the things I like and makes something actually worth watching.
ReplyDeleteFor me nothing new they've come up with recently has been any good, the only thing close has been 12 monkeys and it has its issues, but I don't include anything they don't produce themselves either. It's days of producing quality stuff is long over from my perspective. Something like comic book adaptation, I don't think they can do it justice.
ReplyDeleteFX: The Americans, Fargo, Louie, Married. Showtime: Homeland, The Affair, Penny Dreadful, Masters of Sex
ReplyDeleteI don't like any of that. The Americans is a decent show though. Homeland was also decent. They just are not cable networks I watch.
ReplyDeleteThe Americans is amazing. One of the best shows on TV and is so underrated with people. Homeland S3 was disappointing, but season 4 was amazing just like season 1.
ReplyDeleteI didn't mean it was a bad show, I just prefer spy drams with syfy mythology thrown in.
ReplyDeleteI just hope they make justice to the book
ReplyDeleteThis sound like that movie where you can see colors. I forgot the name. Hoping it's not Olympus level bad.
ReplyDelete"free sex" and Someone challenges the system? I'm just saying wtf?
ReplyDeletePlease not Spielberg!!
ReplyDeleteWell, he was behind Syfy's Taken and that show was good.
ReplyDeleteI guess Alias is your kind of show as well. :D
ReplyDeleteCool.... though it being on SyFy makes me think it will be more on the campy side. Which I'll admit isn't always a bad thing, but I think in this case, for this story, it might not be the best way to go about it.
ReplyDeleteWow, I really like the book so can't wait to see how it will look on screen.
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