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Fahrenheit 451 Adaptation Coming to HBO and the Teaser is Here

By January 19, 2018Adaptations, News

All the way back in 2016 it was announced that HBO were to make a movie adaptation of the classic Ray Bradbury book, Fahrenheit 451. It’s been a while in the making but it’s coming, this year and the first teaser is released.

The new movie will star Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon and is directed by Ramin Bahrani, who spoke of the making of the movie, and the current political climate with the Television Critics Association, he said.

“Politically things are going in a very strange direction in terms of what is real and what is not real… I think we’ve been going in that direction for a long time, it’s just now kind of being revealed to us more clearly. So I think from a high level, that’s a problem….

I don’t want to focus so much on [Trump] because I don’t want to excuse the 30, 40 years prior to that. He’s just an exaggeration of it now…

I don’t want us to forget what Bradbury said, that we asked for this… We are [also] electing again this thing [a smartphone] in my pocket. We are electing to give it all away to this.

Between the technological advancements in last 20 years and politics, I think Bradbury’s biggest concern about the erosion of culture is now… and the speed at which this is advancing is exponential.

Will we actually get ahead of the dam, or will it just be a flood and up to some other generation to bring back all of Bradbury’s heroes?”

The teaser is not even a minute long, but it’s pretty thrilling and you can watch it below. If you want to read the Bradbury classic before the movie is released, you probably still have time to do so.

And for that teaser. We wish we could say no books were harmed in the making of this, but…



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