Screenwriter hired to pen new film version of Orwell's 1984

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Screenwriter hired to pen new film version of Orwell’s 1984

The only film adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian sci-fi classic ‘1984’ came appropriately, in 1984. Hollywood now wants to new a new big screen version, and Imagine has hired TV producer-turned-screenwriter Noah Oppenheim to write it. Brian Grazer will be producing.

Oppenheim is also writing The Secret Life of Houdini, which has Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, The Hunger Games) attached to direct. That one sounds like his most fun project, as it fictionalizes Houdini’s history a bit to place the escape artist and anti-Spiritualist in the employ of the British secret service.

The novel is set in an imaginary future world that is dominated by three perpetually warring totalitarian police states. The book’s hero, Winston Smith, is a minor party functionary in one of these states. His longing for truth and decency leads him to secretly rebel against the government. Smith has a love affair with a like-minded woman, but they are both arrested by the Thought Police. The ensuing imprisonment, torture, and reeducation of Smith are intended not merely to break him physically or make him submit but to root out his independent mental existence and his spiritual dignity.

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