George Orwell's dystopian political novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is getting a new TV adaptation, Deadline reports. Wiip studio, which produces Apple TV+'s Dickinson, is planning to adapt the story as a five-part limited series. The new show will be adapting Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan's play 1984, which is based on Orwell's 1949 dystopian science fiction novel. Wiip's Paul Lee and David Flynn will serve as showrunners, and are set to executive produce alongisde Icke and Macmillan.
Icke and MacMillan have teased that the new 1984 TV show will be a "bold new version" for modern times. They released this statement about 1984:
"As the world grapples with democracy and government in our divided age of surveillance, ‘fake news' and truth decay, the urgency of Orwell's masterpiece is undeniable. The small screen feels like a natural home for his portrait of a society in which people trust their screens more than the world outside their windows."
Here's a synopsis of Orwell's 1984:
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