Ridley Scott has confirmed he is developing an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” with Leonardo Dicaprio, but dont’ get too excited, it sounds like this project is still a few years off. The script isn’t even close to being done and Scott says he’s juggling multiple projects.
“We’re still struggling with that [script.” he told IO9 about his BNW adaptation. “I have 40 things on the go at once. But that’s a very important one. And sometimes, some surface faster than the others. It’s partly luck of the draw. Even with a good writer, he’ll do it and screw up. So then you go back to the table and start all over again, it’s hard. The hardest single thing is getting it on paper.”
Scott said Leo’s production company brought him the project and it wasn’t something he had wanted to do on his own.
“[Leonardo DiCaprio’s] production company that came to me with [it]. And it’s a big challenge, in fact. Because when you look at the two players or visionaries in the field, at that moment [it] would be Huxley and it would be Orwell and that was 60 or 75 years ago. They were predictions in a way, they weren’t aware at the time, but they were predictions. One could argue that Orwell kind of got there first and Orwell was closer to the notion of “big brother,” [with the] Cold War. But I don’t think that’s it, I think that big brother may be the internet. I don’t know but I think that’s the way it’s going to go. And so the Aldous Huxley’s [novel] literally what is called Brave New World that’s a very hard adaptation. So we’re still dancing with that one, but it’s a challenge.”
Having just seen “Body Of Lies” (which comes out this Friday, October 10) very recently, we gotta say, the Scott/DiCaprio team-up is on an upswing. Anyone remember the “Brave New World” TV movie from 1980? That thing was kinda rad.