HBO has dropped the trailer for the very interesting looking new adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. The film will debut on the U.S. network in the spring. Watch the Fahrenheit 451 trailer in the player below.
Fahrenheit 451 trailer
Fahrenheit 451 trailer lands online
Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon lead the cast of the new adaptation, which is directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes) and written by Bahrani & Amir Naderi.
In a future where the media is an opiate, history is rewritten and “firemen” burn books, Jordan plays Guy Montag, a young fireman who struggles with his role as a law enforcer and with his “mentor”, played by Shannon.
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Here’s the plot synopsis from the original source material:
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.
Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.
When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.
There’s no word on a UK debut for the new film, but a lot of HBO content eventually lands on Sky Atlantic. We’re not sure if that’s the case with this one, but we’ll keep you posted.
