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HBO’s Fahrenheit 451 turns a warning about media into a tirade against tech trends

2018-05-19T09:00:01-04:00

Dystopian stories are often described as warnings, but they can also be Rorschach blots. Readers dive in with specific fears - about technology, society, or the future - and find an allegory to validate them. And Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic 1953 novel, is a perfectly adaptable cautionary tale. It's an elegant high-concept story backed by a complicated web of broad social complaints, critiquing everything from social justice to the zipper. This might be why it's produced two dramatically different films: one from French auteur François Truffaut in 1966, and the other from 99 Homes director Ramin Bahrani, premiering this weekend on …

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Michael B. Jordan wants to know ‘why we burn’ in the new Fahrenheit 451 trailer

2018-04-05T16:26:21-04:00

HBO has released a new full-length trailer for its upcoming adaptation of Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, which shows off the world's hellish dystopian society in which books are banned and burned.

The film will star Black Panther's Michael B. Jordan as Guy Montag, a fireman who comes to question his job, while Shape of Water's Michael Shannon plays Captain Beatty, the captain of his station. 99 Houses director Ramin Bahrani wrote and directed the movie.

This trailer shows off a bit more of the world that the book is set in, where books are banned and citizens' behavior is closely regulated via pharmaceuticals. It opens with Montag sh …

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HBO will air its film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 on May 19th

2018-03-25T13:30:02-04:00

HBO's upcoming adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 finally has a release date: May 19th, 2018, according to Variety. The network announced the project last year, which stars Black Panther's Michael B. Jordan and The Shape of Water's Michael Shannon. Ramin Bahrani (99 Houses) directed and co-wrote the film.

Bradbury published the novel in 1953, expanding several shorter works about censorship and authoritarianism. In this future, books are banned, viewed as dangerous to society for the ideas that impart. The government employs a task force of people, called Firemen, to set the books on fire when they're discov …

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The first trailer for HBO’s Fahrenheit 451 is incredibly hot

2018-02-26T15:13:17-05:00

There's no specific release date yet for HBO's Fahrenheit 451, an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel about a future dystopia where books are illegal, and "firemen" are special operatives who find them and burn them. But the network has just released the first full trailer for the film. With Black Panther still setting box office records, the timing is just right: Fahrenheit 451 stars Michael B. Jordan, currently on-screen as Black Panther's memorable, celebrated villain Erik Killmonger, and his role in the new film channels a similar mesmerizing ferocity and idealism. Jordan plays protagonist Guy Montag, a dedicated fireman who begins t …

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HBO’s first teaser for Fahrenheit 451 burns everything down

2018-01-12T12:18:52-05:00

HBO has released the first teaser for its upcoming adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, revealing that the film will air sometime this spring.

The teaser highlights the most vivid part of the novel, showing a burning copy of Crime and Punishment that's dropped onto a pile of other controversial books, which is set on fire by a firefighter yielding a flamethrower.

Bradbury's novel is a classic work of science fiction. He originally wrote a series of shorter stories dealing with censorship and repressive governments in the 1950s, and later brought them into the novel in 1953. The story is set in a dystopian wo …

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HBO is adapting Fahrenheit 451 into a film starring Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon

2017-04-20T09:32:24-04:00

Yesterday, Variety reported that HBO Films is planning to adapt Ray Bradbury's classic novel Fahrenheit 451. Michael B. Jordan (Creed) and Michael Shannon (Man of Steel) are set to star in it, while 99 Houses director Ramin Bahrani is attached to co-write and direct the film.

The studio has only put the adaptation into development, but Variety notes that the "project is moving toward a production commitment at HBO." If it moves forward, Jordan will play Guy Montag, the Fireman at the heart of the story, while Shannon will play his superior, Captain Beatty.

In Fahrenheit 451's future, books are outlawed, and Firemen like Montag and Beatty a …

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