The solo acquisition will headline the series as John the Savage, a product of both the World State from which his mother fled and the Savage Reservation on which he was raised, though he’s kind of an outsider amongst the natives there as well. However, Wiener will now work with Morrison and Taylor, both of which remain executive producers for the pilot.Īlden Ehrenreich was cast for a lead role in USA’s Brave New World, reported Variety. The project originally appointed Les Bohem as writer, subsequently replacing him with Grant Morrison and Brian Taylor the following year. The series order represents the culmination of a developmental process for the Brave New World project several years in the making, stemming back to May 2015 with its initial arrival on NBCU’s slate for its other cable outlet, Syfy. However, despite the strictness of this existence, people are mollified through the encouragement of a hedonistic lifestyle centered around loose consumption, abundant sex and, most importantly, a happiness-inducing drug called Soma.

Wells’s dystopian efforts – depicting a far-future (in approximately 2540 AD,) in which even the most miniscule aspects of civilization and its inhabitants are controlled a world in which genetically engineered people are born from artificial wombs, divided into castes, prohibited from privacy and families, and have designated roles in life. Huxley first published Brave New World in 1931 – originally intended as a parody of H.G.

Serving as director for the pilot episode is Owen Harris ( Black Mirror‘s “San Junipero”). The network is sticking with the writer/showrunner it appointed originally – as part of a writer’s room – in David Wiener, who brings writing and executive producer experience from Amazon’s Homecoming, CBS All Access’s Strange Angel, AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead and Starz’s Flesh and Bone.

The series was originally set for USA Network, where it received a straight-to-series order for a 10-episode inaugural season by the NBCU-owned cable outlet.

Brave New World, an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s seminal sci-fi novel, is coming to NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service.

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