George Orwell's 1984 is Getting New TV Series Adaptation

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:

The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking.[5] Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Outer Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with a colleague, Julia, and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.

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