Spielberg’s Amblin and Syfy Team Up on ‘Brave New World’

Syfy, Spielberg's Amblin Team Up on Brave New World

Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and Syfy are once again teaming up, setting up Brave New World as a new scripted series. Syfy and Amblin previously collaborated on Taken back in 2003, and the new sci-fi series will be executive produced by Amblin’s Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. Taken‘s screenwriter is adapting the classic Aldous Huxley novel for television and will also be involved as an executive producer.

Brave New World is one of the most influential genre classics of all time,” said Dave Howe, President, Syfy & Chiller. “Its provocative vision of a future gone awry remains as powerful and as timeless as ever. Promising to be a monumental television event, Brave New World is precisely the groundbreaking programming that is becoming the hallmark of Syfy.”

“We’ve been looking for an opportunity to reunite with Les, Bonnie Hammer and Dave Howe, ever since our collaboration on Taken over a decade ago, and Brave New World is just the project we’ve been waiting for, to bring the band back together,” said Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey, Co-Presidents, Amblin Television. “We’re thrilled to be working with Dawn Olmstead, with whom we produced The Whispers for ABC, and under the leadership of Jeff Wachtel and Universal Cable Productions, we know the project is in just the right hands.”

The Plot:

Brave New World is set in a world without poverty, war or disease. In this world, humans are given mind-altering drugs, free sex and rampant consumerism are the order of the day, and people no longer reproduce but are genetically engineered in “hatcheries.” Those who won’t conform are forced onto “reservations” – until one of these “savages” challenges the system, threatening the entire social order. First published in 1932, Brave New World was ranked fifth among the 100 best English language novels of the 20th Century by Modern Library.


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