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brave new world

New Ridley Scott Movie Has Better Drugs Than Blade Runner

Ridley Scott is returning to science fiction, the genre he spurned, for the first ever movie adaptation of Aldous Huxley's classic false-utopia novel Brave New World. Leonardo DiCaprio, who owns the movie rights to Brave, will probably star as John the Savage, a natural man who confronts a world of test-tube babies who are kept pacified with drugs and sex. According to Leonardo's dad, who was friends with Huxley's widow, the movie will include CGI vistas of a "vast futuristic world." [Big Picture Radio]

4:30 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,586 views, 43 comments

Latest by MarlboroTestMonkey7: If this returns Scott to the genre and then to Stars My Destination, i'll be just fine. more »

ben x

World of Warcraft Wants Leonardo DiCaprio

Ben X, a European movie about an autistic teen who spends most of his time online as a warrior in a World of Warcraft-esque fantasy game, is about to get a U.S. makeover. More »

12:45 PM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By Kevin Kelly
132 views, Comment