Michael Shannon and Michael B. Jordan will star in HBO's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's sci-fi cautionary tale, Fahrenheit 451.
HBO heard that you like dystopias, so they're going back in the vaults to bring you one of the seminal dystopian works in all of fiction. HBO is developing a Fahrenheit 451 movie, based on Ray Bradbury's classic work of disturbing and increasingly prescient sci-fi. In the 1953 novel, released during the peak of the McCarthy era panic, books are outlawed and "firemen" go around to make sure that they go up in smoke, lest any unapproved ideas make their way out into the world.
In the unlikely event that the words HBO and Fahrenheit 451 in close proximity to each other aren't enough to get you excited, perhaps the cast will. Michael B. Jordan will play Guy Montag, the young fireman who starts to realize that maybe he's in the wrong line of work. HBO veteran Michael Shannon will play Captain Beatty, Montag's commanding officer at the fire department.
Ramin Bahrani and Amir Naderi are adapting Bradbury's book, and Bahrani will direct. The timing, of course, as we find ourselves on the receiving end of an increasingly bizarre parade of "alternative facts" couldn't be more appropriate.
We're not anywhere near a release date yet, but we'll update this article with more information as it becomes available. With any luck, we'll all live long enough to see this one on our screens.