Jessica Brown Findlay has quipped that she was “young” and “naive” when she quit hit period drama Downton Abbey.
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premiering Wednesday on Peacock.“There are some scripts that you just read and immediately know you have to do,” Findlay, 30, tells The Post. “I knew I had to play Lenina Crowne.”“Brave New World” is based on the classic 1932 Aldous Huxley novel of the same name.
It’s set in a utopian society called New London, which has achieved peace by eliminating certain practices including monogamy, privacy, money and family — all imposed by a mixture of genetic engineering and pill-popping. Findlay’s
.Jessica Brown Findlay has quipped that she was “young” and “naive” when she quit hit period drama Downton Abbey.
Corus specialty channels Showcase and W Network announced their primetime 2020 fall schedules and premiere dates on Wednesday.
Netflix film, The Girls I’ve Been.The drama, which will see the Stranger Things star return to the streaming giant, is an adaptation of Tess Sharpe’s novel of the same name, which is scheduled to hit shelves next year.According to Deadline, it’s been described as a thriller centring on a con artist, Nora, who must use her powers of persuasion and impersonation to get herself, her girlfriend, and ex-boyfriend free during a hostage situation at a bank.Jason Bateman, who has his own connection to
The cast and crew of “Brave New World” took part in a panel for Comic-Con @ Home where they discussed the show based on Aldous Huxley’s novel of the same name.
With its increasingly absurd number of delays, “The New Mutants,” fast becoming the “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” of superhero movies, has again returned to prove that it actually exists. A large push at this year’s virtual edition of the San Diego Comic-Con that included a screening of the opening few minutes.
Stream QueensWith the summer heat raging outside and the excitement of the Fourth of July having passed, there are plenty of new streaming options to keep you cool and entertained throughout this weekend.Documentaries abound with a perfect follow-up to and an unvarnished look at the troubles of childhood stardom. If you're in a thriller kind of mood, there are both movie and TV options that are sure to please.
Brave New World? When Season 1 of Peacock's new dystopian series came to a close,it kind of felt like the world had ended, but the story doesn't necessarily have to stop there.The mounting tension in New London came to a head in the Season 1 finale, with the uprising of the Episilons led by CJack60 (Joseph Morgan). They took John's (Alden Ehrenreich) words about creating an equal world a little too far and started massacring Alphas, Betas, and Gammas alike.
Demi Moore has transformed herself for her latest role. The 57-year-old Golden Globe nominee showed off a new hairdo on Instagram on Wednesday.
Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: ABC has put in development a medical drama from The Good Doctor writer-producer David Renaud, the series’ executive producer Seth Gordon Drop Dead Diva creator Josh Berman, and Sony Pictures TV where Berman’s Osprey Prods and Gordon’s Exhibit A Film are both under deals.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten and by Renaud, the series is loosely inspired by his life, centering around a doctor whose life is upended when
Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Brave New World,” streaming now on Peacock.Alden Ehrenreich is no stranger to stepping into the worlds of iconic intellectual property: In 2013 he starred in the big-screen adaptation of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s “Beautiful Creatures” and in 2018 joined the “Star Wars” universe as the titular Han Solo in “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” Now, comes his first television series regular role as
coronavirus pandemic at a safe distance from Hollywood.“As a writer, you’re self-isolating your entire life anyway,” Morrison says from his home in his native Scotland. “So it hasn’t been that difficult.
Peter White Television EditorThere’s something quite apt about a book that explores the issue of instant gratification becoming the centerpiece of a new streaming service.This is Brave New World and it launches today on Peacock.Showrunner David Wiener tells Deadline that he was struck by how prescient author Aldous Huxley’s 1932 book was.
Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVGrant Morrison has been riding out the coronavirus pandemic at a safe distance from Hollywood.“As a writer, you’re self-isolating your entire life anyway,” Morrison says from his home in his native Scotland. “So it hasn’t been that difficult.
Brave New World, most of what we would consider normal human behavior is considered "savage" by the so-called enlightened members of New London. Marriage, pregnancy, privacy — they're all things savages indulge in.
Will Thorne Staff WriterWelcome back to Tune In: our weekly newsletter offering a guide to the best of the week’s TV.Each week, Variety’s TV team combs through the week’s schedule, selecting our picks of what to watch and when/how to watch them.
It feels almost like a prerequisite for a prestige cable or streaming service to have a dystopian sci-fi show in their line-up, and NBC Universal’s Peacock, launching on July 15, is not about to be the exception. It may take plot points and the name of Aldous Huxley’s classic anti-utopian futurist tale “Brave New World” but make no mistake about it: this adaptation owes more to the televised dystopias of the last decade than the original source material.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley on your required reading list in high school, prepare to see it as you never expected.