When he meets Bernard and Lenina in the aftermath of a shooting, John comes to New London and slowly begins to challenge the status quo, ultimately becoming a conduit for Lenina’s desire to live a different life, as well as facilitating the Epsilons’ realization of free will.
Meanwhile, Alden Ehrenreich’s John works as a prop guy on a production in the park, seemingly resigned to a life of mediocrity in the Savage Lands, until he and his mother are threatened. The Savage Lands Park is a place that allows visitors to play out the ways of the “old world,” such as greed, superstition, or violence. As he passes out somas (pills) to keep everyone calm, his curiosity gets the better of him and – subsequently compounded by his need for privacy – he asks his boss, the Director, to send him on vacation to the Savage Lands Amusement Park, on which Bernard brings Lenina along for the ride. Afterward, we follow Bernard, who is called to investigate an incident where he discovers the body of an Epsilon, the lowest caste. Bernard, an Alpha-Plus (the highest level of the society’s caste system), reprimands Lenina (a Beta-Plus, just below the Alphas) for being in a monogamous relationship.
Given my affinity for the creatives involved, I had to see what this take on Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel was all about.īrave New World opens in New London, as Jessica Brown Findlay’s Lenina Crowne, as she is called to the office of Bernard Marx. That changed a few weeks ago when I discovered that the show had finally been made, with Tetro and Solo: A Star Wars Story star Alden Ehrenreich in the lead and David Wiener, comic book icon Grant Morrison and Crank’s Brian Taylor behind the adaptation.
However, when the show failed to materialize, both the book and the potential series fell off my radar. I remember when it was first announced as a Syfy project with Steven Spielberg involved as a producer and immediately put the book on my “to be read” pile. I had always thought that an adaptation of Brave New World would be little more than a dream.
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