Last year, star Michael B. Jordan provoked a storm of criticism with just one line in a Vanity Fair cover profile: “We don’t have any black mythology, or folklore.” Jordan later clarified his comment, acknowledging that black folklore has a very long, rich history. What Jordan had in mind was a more specific point: His concerns over the lack of film and TV content that exploits black folklore. And he absolutely should be.
Hollywood films and TV series often treat black history as if it began with the transatlantic slave trade. Of course, it didn’t; it’s a history that includes centuries of culture and tradition, which also isn’t taught in typical American classrooms. And since mass media also serves as mass education, it’s arguable that most Americans are unaware of the rich mythology that has long existed within the global African diaspora. It’s a...
Hollywood films and TV series often treat black history as if it began with the transatlantic slave trade. Of course, it didn’t; it’s a history that includes centuries of culture and tradition, which also isn’t taught in typical American classrooms. And since mass media also serves as mass education, it’s arguable that most Americans are unaware of the rich mythology that has long existed within the global African diaspora. It’s a...
- 7/8/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Ray Bradbury’s beautiful prose created a chilling dystopian world in Fahrenheit 451 and given the incendiary times we live in, adaptation seems apt. He goes George Orwell one better by erasing history rather than merely rewriting it. HBO was an ideal forum for this, giving the production room to breathe and without the hassle of pacing for commercial breaks.
The 65-year old novel’s bones are well-translated to the screen with Guy Montag (Michael B. Jordan) a dedicated fireman, burning the few remaining books in the world, televising the event to a cheering audience. We watch him begin to question his work and its effects on a world controlled by malevolent forces.
He begins to rebel, aided by Clarisse (Sofia Boutella), and in direct opposition of his superior Captain Beatty (Michael Shannon).
Director Ramin Bahrani shows us how unhappy the people in this world are, how dark the future can...
The 65-year old novel’s bones are well-translated to the screen with Guy Montag (Michael B. Jordan) a dedicated fireman, burning the few remaining books in the world, televising the event to a cheering audience. We watch him begin to question his work and its effects on a world controlled by malevolent forces.
He begins to rebel, aided by Clarisse (Sofia Boutella), and in direct opposition of his superior Captain Beatty (Michael Shannon).
Director Ramin Bahrani shows us how unhappy the people in this world are, how dark the future can...
- 9/28/2018
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
In the latest adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young woman... and begins to rebel against society.
This version of the story comes courtesy of HBO and stars Michael Shannon, Michael B. Jordan and Sofia Boutella.
You'll find the trailer below.
Onwards!
It's been three years since theme park and luxury resort,...
This version of the story comes courtesy of HBO and stars Michael Shannon, Michael B. Jordan and Sofia Boutella.
You'll find the trailer below.
Onwards!
It's been three years since theme park and luxury resort,...
- 9/19/2018
- QuietEarth.us
Fahrenheit 451 is set in a distant future where all books are verboten and troops of firemen keep the peace by burning literature on sight.
Writer-director Ramin Bahrani's 2018 HBO film rebooted this grim allegory with Michael B. Jordan cast as Guy Montag, a fireman who slowly begins to question the system, and Michael Shannon as the ironfisted Captain Beatty, who struggles to keep his young protege in line.
Adapting a beloved classic comes with its own unique set of challenges, including the danger of angering fans of the book. Bahrani made several changes,...
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Writer-director Ramin Bahrani's 2018 HBO film rebooted this grim allegory with Michael B. Jordan cast as Guy Montag, a fireman who slowly begins to question the system, and Michael Shannon as the ironfisted Captain Beatty, who struggles to keep his young protege in line.
Adapting a beloved classic comes with its own unique set of challenges, including the danger of angering fans of the book. Bahrani made several changes,...
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“Black Panther” has made a whopping $699 million at the Us box office as of this writing. Now a quartet of its stars could dominate the Emmys: Sterling K. Brown, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira and Chadwick Boseman. A rallying cry of “Wakanda Forever” could give them an extra advantage over their competition.
Brown is the reigning Best Drama Actor Emmy champ for his work as Randall Pearson on “This Is Us,” so he may not need as much of a “Black Panther” boost since he’s already predicted to repeat according to our predictions with leading odds of 10/3. However, he’s in a tight race with his onscreen father played by Milo Ventimiglia, who’s breathing down his neck in second place with odds of 9/2. So maybe the success of “Black Panther” could help tip the scales in Brown’s favor. He appears in the film as N’Jobu — the...
Brown is the reigning Best Drama Actor Emmy champ for his work as Randall Pearson on “This Is Us,” so he may not need as much of a “Black Panther” boost since he’s already predicted to repeat according to our predictions with leading odds of 10/3. However, he’s in a tight race with his onscreen father played by Milo Ventimiglia, who’s breathing down his neck in second place with odds of 9/2. So maybe the success of “Black Panther” could help tip the scales in Brown’s favor. He appears in the film as N’Jobu — the...
- 6/7/2018
- by Amanda Spears
- Gold Derby
HBO's movie adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury starring Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon, and Sofia Boutella (Atomic Blonde) was released on HBO on May 19th, and now it can be your very own via Blu-ray on September 18th. It looks as though the Blu-ray will include a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film with its stars and director, Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes).
Blu-ray.com reports that HBO Home Entertainment will release the network's movie adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 on Blu-ray and DVD beginning September 18th.
The special features will include the following:
Behind the Fire - Take a deeper look into Fahrenheit 451 as Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella, and director Ramin Bahrani discuss Guy Montag's character evolution and relationships.
Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes), Fahrenheit 451 stars Michael B. Jordan, Sofia Boutella (2017's The Mummy), and Michael Shannon.
Synopsis: "Based on...
Blu-ray.com reports that HBO Home Entertainment will release the network's movie adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 on Blu-ray and DVD beginning September 18th.
The special features will include the following:
Behind the Fire - Take a deeper look into Fahrenheit 451 as Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella, and director Ramin Bahrani discuss Guy Montag's character evolution and relationships.
Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes), Fahrenheit 451 stars Michael B. Jordan, Sofia Boutella (2017's The Mummy), and Michael Shannon.
Synopsis: "Based on...
- 6/7/2018
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
New York, N.Y., June 4, 2018 – Imagine a society where books are outlawed and “firemen” have been tasked to burn and destroy any remaining literature, erasing history right before our eyes. This is the reality in Fahrenheit 451, a jaw-dropping new HBO Film starring Michael B. Jordan and Oscar® nominee Michael Shannon (Shape of Water), available on Digital Download June 18, 2018 and Blu-ray and DVD September 18, 2018.
Based on Ray Bradbury’s classic sci-fi novel of the same name, the thought-provoking parable depicts a frighteningly plausible future where media is an opiate, history is purged and dissent is outlawed. The dystopian thriller centers on Montag (Jordan), a young fireman who forsakes his world and struggles to regain his humanity as he battles his mentor, fire captain Beatty (Shannon).
Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes), Fahrenheit 451 also stars Sofia Boutella (The Mummy), Lily Singh (Bad Moms), Laura Harrier (Spider-Man Homecoming), Martin Donovan (Ant-Man), and more.
Based on Ray Bradbury’s classic sci-fi novel of the same name, the thought-provoking parable depicts a frighteningly plausible future where media is an opiate, history is purged and dissent is outlawed. The dystopian thriller centers on Montag (Jordan), a young fireman who forsakes his world and struggles to regain his humanity as he battles his mentor, fire captain Beatty (Shannon).
Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes), Fahrenheit 451 also stars Sofia Boutella (The Mummy), Lily Singh (Bad Moms), Laura Harrier (Spider-Man Homecoming), Martin Donovan (Ant-Man), and more.
- 6/7/2018
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
"Being a black man, I didn't want to play somebody who's an oppressor," Michael B. Jordan told The Hollywood Reporter during the Drama Actor Roundtable on why he originally turned down his role in HBO's Fahrenheit 451. "I just didn't want that in my head."
Jordan plays Guy Montag in the film, which is based on Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel.
"After sitting down with the director Ramin [Bahrani] and knowing Michael Shannon was going to be a part of it — he's an incredible actor — and understanding the vision ...
Jordan plays Guy Montag in the film, which is based on Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel.
"After sitting down with the director Ramin [Bahrani] and knowing Michael Shannon was going to be a part of it — he's an incredible actor — and understanding the vision ...
- 5/28/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “Fahrenheit 451” — both the HBO movie and Ray Bradbury’s original book.]
When Michael B. Jordan was first approached to play Guy Montag, the book-burning fireman-turned-resistance fighter at the center of “Fahrenheit 451,” he didn’t want the part.
“I was a little hesitant about playing this role at first because of the social temperature right now between police and my community,” Jordan told IndieWire. “I wasn’t really interested in playing an authority figure.”
At the time, Jordan hadn’t read Bradbury’s book, and after having lunch with writer-director Ramin Bahrani, reading his script, and studying the 1953 novel, he came around.
“My perspective started to shift a little bit, realizing the arc of Montag,” Jordan said. “He starts in one place — being very much the poster boy of the Fire Department, controlling information and knowledge, burning books and history and art — and he actually comes full circle. He starts to think. He gets into the resistance.
When Michael B. Jordan was first approached to play Guy Montag, the book-burning fireman-turned-resistance fighter at the center of “Fahrenheit 451,” he didn’t want the part.
“I was a little hesitant about playing this role at first because of the social temperature right now between police and my community,” Jordan told IndieWire. “I wasn’t really interested in playing an authority figure.”
At the time, Jordan hadn’t read Bradbury’s book, and after having lunch with writer-director Ramin Bahrani, reading his script, and studying the 1953 novel, he came around.
“My perspective started to shift a little bit, realizing the arc of Montag,” Jordan said. “He starts in one place — being very much the poster boy of the Fire Department, controlling information and knowledge, burning books and history and art — and he actually comes full circle. He starts to think. He gets into the resistance.
- 5/20/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Michael B. Jordan earned his first producing credit on HBO's Fahrenheit 451, a modern adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 1953 book of the same name. For the actor, who stars in the movie as protagonist Guy Montag, it's a project that he couldn't be more excited about.
But that wasn't always the case. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter ahead of Fahrenheit 451's debut on the premium cable channel, Jordan reveals why his commitment to fair and positive representations of the black community onscreen made him think twice about signing on to the Ramin Bahrani-directed film.
According ...
But that wasn't always the case. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter ahead of Fahrenheit 451's debut on the premium cable channel, Jordan reveals why his commitment to fair and positive representations of the black community onscreen made him think twice about signing on to the Ramin Bahrani-directed film.
According ...
- 5/19/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Michael B. Jordan earned his first producing credit on HBO's Fahrenheit 451, a modern adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 1953 book of the same name. For the actor, who stars in the movie as protagonist Guy Montag, it's a project that he couldn't be more excited about.
But that wasn't always the case. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter ahead of Fahrenheit 451's debut on the premium cable channel, Jordan reveals why his commitment to fair and positive representations of the black community onscreen made him think twice about signing on to the Ramin Bahrani-directed film.
According ...
But that wasn't always the case. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter ahead of Fahrenheit 451's debut on the premium cable channel, Jordan reveals why his commitment to fair and positive representations of the black community onscreen made him think twice about signing on to the Ramin Bahrani-directed film.
According ...
- 5/19/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ramin Bahrani adapts Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 for HBO this week, and after its gala premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on May 12th, stars Michael Shannon and Sofia Boutella stopped by Deadline’s Cannes Studio to explain their interest in the project. For both actors, the opportunity was to update Bradbury’s text to shine a light on the social media era of today, something they felt Bradbury would have approved of. “I thought Ramin was right on the money,” Shannon said. “Ramin says that Bradbury himself was not shy about making changes to his own work, doing adaptations of even Fahrenheit 451. He would make changes to it, so I think it was really a situation where [Bahrani] wanted to be as visceral and immediate as possible, and how do you accomplish that?”
The film stars Michael B. Jordan as Guy Montag, the book-burning enforcer of Shannon’s Chief Beatty,...
The film stars Michael B. Jordan as Guy Montag, the book-burning enforcer of Shannon’s Chief Beatty,...
- 5/17/2018
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael B. Jordan is an Emmy contender this year for his leading role in the dystopian HBO telefilm “Fahrenheit 451,” which premieres on May 20. He plays Guy Montag, a “fireman” whose job is to burn books. The actor is coming off of a string of big-screen successes, including “Black Panther” earlier this year, and it’s not uncommon for an actor to leverage a recent movie hit into an Emmy victory. Will Jordan be the latest?
Jordan has risen in prominence thanks in large part to his collaborations with director Ryan Coogler. They first teamed up for the critically acclaimed independent film “Fruitvale Station” (2013) about an unarmed black man shot and killed by police in the Bay Area. Then they scaled up with “Creed” (2015), a modestly budgeted “Rocky” sequel in which Jordan played the son of former Rocky rival Apollo Creed. That film was also admired by critics, and it...
Jordan has risen in prominence thanks in large part to his collaborations with director Ryan Coogler. They first teamed up for the critically acclaimed independent film “Fruitvale Station” (2013) about an unarmed black man shot and killed by police in the Bay Area. Then they scaled up with “Creed” (2015), a modestly budgeted “Rocky” sequel in which Jordan played the son of former Rocky rival Apollo Creed. That film was also admired by critics, and it...
- 5/16/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” published in 1953, describes a dystopian future in which books have become illegal artifacts, and where a fireman’s job is not to put out fires but rather to start them, torching contraband novels wherever they might be hidden.
To read “Fahrenheit 451” the old-fashioned way — in its (flammable) paper form versus an online reader — is to feel as rebellious as its heroes, who break the rules simply by owning a book. But to watch it on television, as in Ramin Bahrani’s new adaptation for HBO, is a curious kind of paradox, and one that its director didn’t shy away from embracing.
“It seemed that technology not only caught up to what Bradbury was talking about but went past it,” says Bahrani of our post-print world, where Borders has gone out of business and old-school libraries have scaled back their hours of operation. After taking on the U.
To read “Fahrenheit 451” the old-fashioned way — in its (flammable) paper form versus an online reader — is to feel as rebellious as its heroes, who break the rules simply by owning a book. But to watch it on television, as in Ramin Bahrani’s new adaptation for HBO, is a curious kind of paradox, and one that its director didn’t shy away from embracing.
“It seemed that technology not only caught up to what Bradbury was talking about but went past it,” says Bahrani of our post-print world, where Borders has gone out of business and old-school libraries have scaled back their hours of operation. After taking on the U.
- 5/16/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
After wowing audiences at the Venice Film Festival with his previous feature, 99 Homes, Ramin Bahrani comes to Cannes with his eagerly-awaited adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Alas, hopes for a hard-hitting, high-quality film were quickly shot down in flames, for this is not so much a pyrotechnic masterclass as a bit of a damp squib.
The story revolves around fireman Guy Montag (Michael B. Jordan). His job is not to put out fires, but to burn books – or hard drives – as the state strives to eliminate all such ‘graffiti’ from society. Montag is a handsome, photogenic pin-up for the firemen and he pursues his book-burning profession unquestioningly. He lives in luxury, in an antiseptic high-tech apartment, with an all-seeing eye that looks after all his needs, from reminding him to take his eye drops to applauding his sartorial decisions. His boss is Beatty. He also loves his job,...
The story revolves around fireman Guy Montag (Michael B. Jordan). His job is not to put out fires, but to burn books – or hard drives – as the state strives to eliminate all such ‘graffiti’ from society. Montag is a handsome, photogenic pin-up for the firemen and he pursues his book-burning profession unquestioningly. He lives in luxury, in an antiseptic high-tech apartment, with an all-seeing eye that looks after all his needs, from reminding him to take his eye drops to applauding his sartorial decisions. His boss is Beatty. He also loves his job,...
- 5/16/2018
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Most people who see Ramin Bahrani’s “Fahrenheit 451,” which had a midnight screening at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday and comes to HBO on May 19, will probably think of it as a new adaptation of the classic science-fiction novel by Ray Bradbury, who posited a future in which books were outlawed and the job of a fireman was to burn them.
But in Cannes, there’s another strong association, because an earlier film based on Bradbury’s book was directed by legendary French director Francois Truffaut, whose only English-language film was a 1966 version starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie.
So Bahrani, the director of “99 Homes” and “Chop Shop,” comes to the Croisette having to measure up to two formidable artists — a task he approaches by doing his best to ignore Truffaut and give glancing service to Bradbury.
Also Read: 'Cold War' Film Review: Romance in Postwar Europe Is Ravishing and Haunted
Bahrani’s “Fahrenheit 451” is more high-tech than Truffaut’s, of course, and far more violent. It jettisons big portions of Bradbury’s story to zero in on one relationship, and adds a shoot-‘em-out finale miles away in tone from the novelist’s more contemplative coda. (To be fair, that coda followed the nuking of a city, so the author hardly eschewed violence.)
It works, to a degree, though largely as a showcase for a battle between Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon. The former plays Guy Montag, a gung-ho fireman primed for a promotion and seemingly eager to be the brash hero of every book-burning for the mindless masses who watch his exploits on 24-hour-a-day reality TV (or is it fake news?) projected on the side of the skyscrapers in the unnamed future metropolis.
Shannon is Captain Beatty, Montag’s boss, whose quintessential Shannonesque villainy is slightly undercut by the fact that he seems to have read a lot of the books he burns, and can eloquently explain that they contradict each other and would just confuse regular people.
Those people are kept in a state of perpetual vacuity by state news and by “The 9,” this film’s version of the internet, albeit an internet designed to dumb down everybody who uses it — which is to say, everybody.
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In Bradbury’s book and Truffaut’s film, the misguided masses were epitomized by Montag’s wife, Millie, who’s been so techno-lobotomized that she can’t even remember her suicide attempt the morning after. Bahrani filmed Millie’s scenes, with actress Laura Harrier in the role, but they wound up on the cutting-room floor; in this “Fahrenheit 451,” the mindless masses are barely seen and Montag is a bachelor, all the better to hasten his showdown with Captain Beatty.
That showdown comes when Montag, spurred by a few conversations with a mysterious young woman who informs for Beatty but also has ties to the resistance, and shaken by an old woman who incinerates herself rather than watch her illicit library burn, begins to think that books just might be better for, you know, reading instead of burning.
He swipes a copy of Dostoyevsky’s “Notes From the Underground” (in Bradbury’s telling, it was the Bible) and starts having the kind of doubts we knew were inevitable from the moment Jordan strutted and grinned like the world’s most enthusiastic fireman in his early scenes.
Also Read: 'Ash Is Purest White' Film Review: The Characters Have Growing Pains, and So Does China
Bahrani’s “Fahrenheit” has its topical touches, with clear nods to today’s anti-immigrant crusades in the way people are separated into “natives” and “eels” — i.e., good citizens who do what the government tells them and outsiders who don’t. But despite the timeliness, and the spectacle of all those gleaming high-rise towers serving as giant TV screens, the film sometimes seems as besotted with the shiny images as Montag initially is with the flames he unleashes.
Bradbury and Truffaut both had more humane, more human takes on the material, and maybe more love for the power of the words that Montag ends up trying to save rather than burn.
This version of the story turns into a chase of sorts, and places the real key to humanity’s future not in the memories of a colony of people who’ve memorized entire books, but the DNA of a bird who’s been programmed with all human knowledge. (The book people are here, but they’re expendable; it’s the bird who’s got to be saved at all costs.)
Jordan and Shannon, though, make suitably fierce competitors. And in an era where inconvenient truths are branded as fake, any take on Bradbury’s cautionary tale can’t help but be resonant, and worth seeing.
Read original story ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Film Review: Michael B. Jordan Remakes Ray Bradbury for the Age of Fake News At TheWrap...
But in Cannes, there’s another strong association, because an earlier film based on Bradbury’s book was directed by legendary French director Francois Truffaut, whose only English-language film was a 1966 version starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie.
So Bahrani, the director of “99 Homes” and “Chop Shop,” comes to the Croisette having to measure up to two formidable artists — a task he approaches by doing his best to ignore Truffaut and give glancing service to Bradbury.
Also Read: 'Cold War' Film Review: Romance in Postwar Europe Is Ravishing and Haunted
Bahrani’s “Fahrenheit 451” is more high-tech than Truffaut’s, of course, and far more violent. It jettisons big portions of Bradbury’s story to zero in on one relationship, and adds a shoot-‘em-out finale miles away in tone from the novelist’s more contemplative coda. (To be fair, that coda followed the nuking of a city, so the author hardly eschewed violence.)
It works, to a degree, though largely as a showcase for a battle between Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon. The former plays Guy Montag, a gung-ho fireman primed for a promotion and seemingly eager to be the brash hero of every book-burning for the mindless masses who watch his exploits on 24-hour-a-day reality TV (or is it fake news?) projected on the side of the skyscrapers in the unnamed future metropolis.
Shannon is Captain Beatty, Montag’s boss, whose quintessential Shannonesque villainy is slightly undercut by the fact that he seems to have read a lot of the books he burns, and can eloquently explain that they contradict each other and would just confuse regular people.
Those people are kept in a state of perpetual vacuity by state news and by “The 9,” this film’s version of the internet, albeit an internet designed to dumb down everybody who uses it — which is to say, everybody.
Also Read: Jessica Chastain Spy Thriller '355' Lands at Universal After Bidding War
In Bradbury’s book and Truffaut’s film, the misguided masses were epitomized by Montag’s wife, Millie, who’s been so techno-lobotomized that she can’t even remember her suicide attempt the morning after. Bahrani filmed Millie’s scenes, with actress Laura Harrier in the role, but they wound up on the cutting-room floor; in this “Fahrenheit 451,” the mindless masses are barely seen and Montag is a bachelor, all the better to hasten his showdown with Captain Beatty.
That showdown comes when Montag, spurred by a few conversations with a mysterious young woman who informs for Beatty but also has ties to the resistance, and shaken by an old woman who incinerates herself rather than watch her illicit library burn, begins to think that books just might be better for, you know, reading instead of burning.
He swipes a copy of Dostoyevsky’s “Notes From the Underground” (in Bradbury’s telling, it was the Bible) and starts having the kind of doubts we knew were inevitable from the moment Jordan strutted and grinned like the world’s most enthusiastic fireman in his early scenes.
Also Read: 'Ash Is Purest White' Film Review: The Characters Have Growing Pains, and So Does China
Bahrani’s “Fahrenheit” has its topical touches, with clear nods to today’s anti-immigrant crusades in the way people are separated into “natives” and “eels” — i.e., good citizens who do what the government tells them and outsiders who don’t. But despite the timeliness, and the spectacle of all those gleaming high-rise towers serving as giant TV screens, the film sometimes seems as besotted with the shiny images as Montag initially is with the flames he unleashes.
Bradbury and Truffaut both had more humane, more human takes on the material, and maybe more love for the power of the words that Montag ends up trying to save rather than burn.
This version of the story turns into a chase of sorts, and places the real key to humanity’s future not in the memories of a colony of people who’ve memorized entire books, but the DNA of a bird who’s been programmed with all human knowledge. (The book people are here, but they’re expendable; it’s the bird who’s got to be saved at all costs.)
Jordan and Shannon, though, make suitably fierce competitors. And in an era where inconvenient truths are branded as fake, any take on Bradbury’s cautionary tale can’t help but be resonant, and worth seeing.
Read original story ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Film Review: Michael B. Jordan Remakes Ray Bradbury for the Age of Fake News At TheWrap...
- 5/13/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Can an adaptation of a 65-year-old book feel too futuristic? That’s the dilemma that HBO’s “Fahrenheit 451” TV movie, directed and adapted by “99 Homes'” Ramin Bahrani, presents to us.
On the one hand, much of the world it presents is familiar, especially to those who read Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel. The core story is there: Guy Montag (Michael B. Jordan) works as a fireman in a dystopian future where, instead of putting out fires, he starts them. He, alongside a team led by Captain Beatty (Michael Shannon), seeks to find remaining books and scraps of literature in the country, and burn them in a spectacle of fire. The fires are broadcast to the citizens, who watch and cheer as the written word is destroyed.
Guy, as our protagonist, grows increasingly skeptical of this, and an encounter with a book-hoarding woman who burns herself alive leaves him questioning everything.
On the one hand, much of the world it presents is familiar, especially to those who read Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel. The core story is there: Guy Montag (Michael B. Jordan) works as a fireman in a dystopian future where, instead of putting out fires, he starts them. He, alongside a team led by Captain Beatty (Michael Shannon), seeks to find remaining books and scraps of literature in the country, and burn them in a spectacle of fire. The fires are broadcast to the citizens, who watch and cheer as the written word is destroyed.
Guy, as our protagonist, grows increasingly skeptical of this, and an encounter with a book-hoarding woman who burns herself alive leaves him questioning everything.
- 5/13/2018
- by Kevin O'Keefe
- Variety Film + TV
Cancel your summer plans: TV is offering plenty of reasons to stay inside. Even when the weather’s great — and not a humid trap for blood-sucking insects and sticky clothes — there’s simply too much great, new programming popping in to spend all your time away from the big screen.
To kick the season off, Netflix is releasing a slew of much-anticipated original programs in May; one of which was announced so recently IndieWire didn’t have time to include it on this list. As the months tick by and the temperature climbs, look for cool new dramas from HBO, AMC, and Paramount Network. And if you need one more binge before summer’s end, Amazon, Hulu, and NBC have several options in mind.
Below, IndieWire has rounded up all the new shows coming your way in the summer of 2018, including first seasons and returning favorites, as well as a few choice movies,...
To kick the season off, Netflix is releasing a slew of much-anticipated original programs in May; one of which was announced so recently IndieWire didn’t have time to include it on this list. As the months tick by and the temperature climbs, look for cool new dramas from HBO, AMC, and Paramount Network. And if you need one more binge before summer’s end, Amazon, Hulu, and NBC have several options in mind.
Below, IndieWire has rounded up all the new shows coming your way in the summer of 2018, including first seasons and returning favorites, as well as a few choice movies,...
- 5/8/2018
- by Ben Travers, Hanh Nguyen, Liz Shannon Miller, Steve Greene and Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Michael B. Jordan fights for knowledge and the future of humanity in the first official trailer for HBO’s “Fahrenheit 451.”
Jordan plays protagonist Guy Montag in the film based on Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel. In the futuristic world, firefighters are responsible for creating fires instead of putting them out, as they burn books to censor society and limit knowledge.
The trailer opens with Jordan giving a speech to a group of identically-dressed children. “Have any of you guys ever seen one of these bad things for real?” Jordan asks as he clashes two books together. The children respond with a roaring, “No!” Jordan continues, “We burned almost every physical book in the country. So, by the time you guys grow up, there won’t be one book left.”
The clip then shows Michael Shannon, who portrays fire chief Beatty, commanding Jordan’s character to “Burn it.”
Sofia Boutella,...
Jordan plays protagonist Guy Montag in the film based on Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel. In the futuristic world, firefighters are responsible for creating fires instead of putting them out, as they burn books to censor society and limit knowledge.
The trailer opens with Jordan giving a speech to a group of identically-dressed children. “Have any of you guys ever seen one of these bad things for real?” Jordan asks as he clashes two books together. The children respond with a roaring, “No!” Jordan continues, “We burned almost every physical book in the country. So, by the time you guys grow up, there won’t be one book left.”
The clip then shows Michael Shannon, who portrays fire chief Beatty, commanding Jordan’s character to “Burn it.”
Sofia Boutella,...
- 4/6/2018
- by Ariana Brockington
- Variety Film + TV
"We have an important task for you..." HBO has launched a full-length official trailer for Ramin Bahrani's Fahrenheit 451, a new feature film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's seminal work about a dystopian book-burning future America (which was made into a film in 1966). Oh my does this look good, and frighteningly accurate in relation to what's currently happening in America. This version stars Michael B. Jordan as Guy Montag, a young fireman who struggles with his role as a law enforcer. The full cast includes Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella, Keir Dullea, Chris Gleason, Martin Donovan, Lilly Singh, Grace Lynn Kung, Joe Pingue, and Sean Jones. I am so, so in for this and can't wait to watch the entire film. Trust in Bahrani! He's a great filmmaker, and I have a good feeling he's made one of his strongest yet with this film. Here's the full-length trailer for Ramin Bahrani's Fahrenheit 451,...
- 4/5/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Michael B. Jordan turns against a dystopian, book-burning society in the chilling new trailer for HBO's upcoming adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic novel, Fahrenheit 451.
Jordan stars as Guy Montag, a "fireman" whose job isn't to extinguish fires, but burn all books, which have been outlawed. While the clip opens with Montag explaining the importance of his job to a group of school children, he soon comes to question the purpose of his occupation, squaring off against his mentor, fire captain Beatty (Michael Shannon). In the middle of their battle,...
Jordan stars as Guy Montag, a "fireman" whose job isn't to extinguish fires, but burn all books, which have been outlawed. While the clip opens with Montag explaining the importance of his job to a group of school children, he soon comes to question the purpose of his occupation, squaring off against his mentor, fire captain Beatty (Michael Shannon). In the middle of their battle,...
- 4/5/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Books are considered dangerous weapons of knowledge in the world of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and the classic novel's unsettling future is brought to life in the official trailer for HBO's adaptation of the same name.
Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes), Fahrenheit 451 stars Michael B. Jordan (Creed, Chronicle), Sofia Boutella (2017's The Mummy), and Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals, Bug). In addition to starring in the movie, Jordan is also one of the executive producers of the film, which has the following synopsis (via Collider):
"Fahrenheit 451 is based on Ray Bradbury’s classic novel. 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 law enforcer and with his “mentor”, played by Shannon."
As essential to read now as it was when it was originally published in 1953, Fahrenheit 451...
Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes), Fahrenheit 451 stars Michael B. Jordan (Creed, Chronicle), Sofia Boutella (2017's The Mummy), and Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals, Bug). In addition to starring in the movie, Jordan is also one of the executive producers of the film, which has the following synopsis (via Collider):
"Fahrenheit 451 is based on Ray Bradbury’s classic novel. 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 law enforcer and with his “mentor”, played by Shannon."
As essential to read now as it was when it was originally published in 1953, Fahrenheit 451...
- 4/5/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Author: Zehra Phelan
HBO have released another trailer for the Michael B. Jordan led Fahrenheit 451 ahead of its spring premiere.
Related: Watch the teaser trailer for the film here
Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes) and written by Bahrani & Amir Naderi the film is based on the groundbreaking book by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 focuses on a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young girl…and begins to rebel against society.
Jordan portrays Montag, a young fireman who forsakes his world and struggles to regain his humanity as he battles his mentor, fire captain Beatty, played by Michael Shannon. Sofia Boutella (The Mummy, Kingsman: The Secret Service) stars as Clarisse, an informant caught between the competing interests of Montag and Beatty.
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HBO have released another trailer for the Michael B. Jordan led Fahrenheit 451 ahead of its spring premiere.
Related: Watch the teaser trailer for the film here
Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes) and written by Bahrani & Amir Naderi the film is based on the groundbreaking book by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 focuses on a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young girl…and begins to rebel against society.
Jordan portrays Montag, a young fireman who forsakes his world and struggles to regain his humanity as he battles his mentor, fire captain Beatty, played by Michael Shannon. Sofia Boutella (The Mummy, Kingsman: The Secret Service) stars as Clarisse, an informant caught between the competing interests of Montag and Beatty.
Watch: Exclusive: Joel Edgerton talks about his role In Red Sparrow and...
- 2/28/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Julie Christie is best known for playing the law-abiding housewife Linda (left) and the book savvy teacher Clarisse (right) -- opposite Oskar Werner as the book-smuggling fireman, Guy Montag -- in the Og 1966 futuristic film ''Fahrenheit 451." Guess what she looks like now!
- 2/28/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Sneak Peek new footage, plus images from "Fahrenheit 451", written and directed by Ramin Bahrani, adapting the book by Ray Bradbury, starring Michael B. Jordan, Sofia Boutella and Michael Shannon, airing in 2018 on HBO:
"...in a terrifying care-free future, 'Guy Montag', whose job as a 'fireman' is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young girl...
"...before he rebels against society..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Fahrenheit 451"...
"...in a terrifying care-free future, 'Guy Montag', whose job as a 'fireman' is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young girl...
"...before he rebels against society..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Fahrenheit 451"...
- 2/27/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Chalk it up to it not actually getting a theatrical release, but it seems like it wasn’t on the top of everyone’s radar that the great Ramin Bahrani (Chop Shop, 99 Homes, Man Push Cart, Goodbye Solo) had directed Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon in a new spin on the Ray Bradbury classic Fahrenheit 451. Now that HBO has released the first trailer–well-timed right after Jordan stole the show in Black Panther–ahead of a May release, we imagine it will ignite your interest.
Adapted from the 1953 Ray Bradbury novel, Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian saga about “firemen” who don’t put out fires, but rather start them by burning books, which are outlawed in the bleak but probably now not-too-distant version of America the characters inhabit. Jordan pays Guy Montag, a fireman who comes to lose faith in his profession once his eyes are opened to the outlawed printed word.
Adapted from the 1953 Ray Bradbury novel, Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian saga about “firemen” who don’t put out fires, but rather start them by burning books, which are outlawed in the bleak but probably now not-too-distant version of America the characters inhabit. Jordan pays Guy Montag, a fireman who comes to lose faith in his profession once his eyes are opened to the outlawed printed word.
- 2/27/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
HBO has released the first teaser for their movie based on the gripping book by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451! Watch Michael B. Jordan burn it all down within...
This Spring, HBO is bringing the heat with their film, Fahrenheit 451. The film, based on Ray Bradbury's 1953 classic, stars Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon as two "Firemen" in a future where books have been outlawed and must be burned. Jordan plays the lead character, Guy Montag, who starts to rethink his actions and that of his mentor Captain Beatty, played by Shannon.
Bradbury's novel has been regarded as one of his best writings, but it's also his most intense. If this initial teaser is any indication for what we're in store for, it looks like it'll do Bradbury's tale justice.
This may be the first time HBO has taken a crack at Fahrenheit 451, but it's not the first time this...
This Spring, HBO is bringing the heat with their film, Fahrenheit 451. The film, based on Ray Bradbury's 1953 classic, stars Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon as two "Firemen" in a future where books have been outlawed and must be burned. Jordan plays the lead character, Guy Montag, who starts to rethink his actions and that of his mentor Captain Beatty, played by Shannon.
Bradbury's novel has been regarded as one of his best writings, but it's also his most intense. If this initial teaser is any indication for what we're in store for, it looks like it'll do Bradbury's tale justice.
This may be the first time HBO has taken a crack at Fahrenheit 451, but it's not the first time this...
- 2/26/2018
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Matt Malliaros)
- Cinelinx
HBO has been teasing us about their upcoming made-for-tv movie Fahrenheit 451 for some time, including a teaser trailer earlier this year, and they have now unleashed a slightly longer trailer featuring Michael B. Jordan's Guy Montag prominently.
Based on Ray Bradbury's dystopian classic, the novel is being adapted and directed by Ramin Bahrani (Chop Shop, 99 Homes), and stars Jordan as the movie's protagonist Guy, a firefighter whose job is to burn books.
Along with Jordan who is currently experiencing a well earned high with the success of Black Panther, the new movie also stars Michael Sh...
Based on Ray Bradbury's dystopian classic, the novel is being adapted and directed by Ramin Bahrani (Chop Shop, 99 Homes), and stars Jordan as the movie's protagonist Guy, a firefighter whose job is to burn books.
Along with Jordan who is currently experiencing a well earned high with the success of Black Panther, the new movie also stars Michael Sh...
- 2/26/2018
- QuietEarth.us
Michael B. Jordan goes from Black Panther's fictional world of Wakanda to a dystopian United States in the first trailer for Fahrenheit 451, HBO's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 1953 sci-fi novel.
In the film, Jordan portrays Guy Montag, a "fireman" whose job is incinerating books as opposed to extinguishing fires. Michael Shannon plays Montag's mentor in the adaptation, which puts a modern spin on Bradbury's original work.
"Have you ever seen a physical book before? Do you wanna know what's inside? Insanity," Shannon's character says in voiceover. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
In the film, Jordan portrays Guy Montag, a "fireman" whose job is incinerating books as opposed to extinguishing fires. Michael Shannon plays Montag's mentor in the adaptation, which puts a modern spin on Bradbury's original work.
"Have you ever seen a physical book before? Do you wanna know what's inside? Insanity," Shannon's character says in voiceover. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- 2/26/2018
- Rollingstone.com
HBO Films has released the first look at Fahrenheit 451, the adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel that stars Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon. The premium network is bowing the pic directed by Ramin Bahrani in the spring. Set in a world in which media is an opiate, history is outlawed and firemen are the people who burn books, Jordan plays Guy Montag, a fireman who forsakes his world pitting him in a battle with his mentor Beatty (Shannon). Sofia Boutella and…...
- 2/26/2018
- Deadline TV
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." This is a must watch! HBO has unveiled the first teaser trailer for their new adaptation of the novel Fahrenheit 451, directed by filmmaker Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo, At Any Price, 99 Homes). Adapted directly from Ray Bradbury's seminal work about a dystopian book-burning future America (which was made into a film in 1966), this version stars Michael B. Jordan as Guy Montag, a young fireman who struggles with his role as a law enforcer. The full cast also includes Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella, Keir Dullea, Chris Gleason, Martin Donovan, Lilly Singh, Grace Lynn Kung, Joe Pingue, and Sean Jones. This looks so damn good, way better than I was expecting it to look. I'm fully ready for this, and I feel like Bahrani might've been the perfect director for it after all. Fire this up. Here's the first official teaser trailer for Ramin Bahrani's Fahrenheit 451,...
- 2/26/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Killmonger is more a firemonger in the first teaser for HBO’s adaptation of the classic novel Fahrenheit 451.
Premiering in May and based on Ray Bradbury’s novel of the same name, the HBO film presents future where the media is an opiate, history is rewritten and “firemen” burn books.
Jordan, currently heating up the blockbuster Black Panther movie, plays Guy Montag, a young fireman who struggles with both his role as law enforcer and with his “mentor,” played by Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water, Boardwalk Empire).
Check out the teaser above and tell us if you will...
Premiering in May and based on Ray Bradbury’s novel of the same name, the HBO film presents future where the media is an opiate, history is rewritten and “firemen” burn books.
Jordan, currently heating up the blockbuster Black Panther movie, plays Guy Montag, a young fireman who struggles with both his role as law enforcer and with his “mentor,” played by Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water, Boardwalk Empire).
Check out the teaser above and tell us if you will...
- 2/26/2018
- TVLine.com
HBO has offered a haunting first glimpse of its film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s best-selling 1953 dystopian tale, Fahrenheit 451, which depicts a time period where history is outlawed and “firemen” burn books.
In the Ramin Bahrani-directed film, Michael B. Jordan stars as Guy Montag, a fireman who comes to question his role in enforcing the state's censorship laws, and in so doing finds himself at odds with his “mentor,” Beatty (Michael Shannon).
“By the time you guys grow up, there won’t be one book left,” Jordan is shown telling a group of ...
In the Ramin Bahrani-directed film, Michael B. Jordan stars as Guy Montag, a fireman who comes to question his role in enforcing the state's censorship laws, and in so doing finds himself at odds with his “mentor,” Beatty (Michael Shannon).
“By the time you guys grow up, there won’t be one book left,” Jordan is shown telling a group of ...
- 2/26/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
HBO have released a teaser trailer for their upcoming new adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Fahrenheit 451, which comes from director Ramin Bahrani, and stars Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella, Laura Harrier and Martin Donovan.
In a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young girl… and begins to rebel against society.
Fahrenheit 451 is set to premiere this Spring on HBO.
In a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young girl… and begins to rebel against society.
Fahrenheit 451 is set to premiere this Spring on HBO.
- 1/12/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
In the futuristic world of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, firemen don't put out fires, they start them.
HBO Films released a teaser trailer for Fahrenheit 451 that you can watch below. While it doesn't give us a look at the characters of the futuristic world, it does show a fireman's flamethrower lighting up a pile of books.
Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes) and based on the seminal Ray Bradbury book of the same name, Fahrenheit 451 stars Michael B. Jordan (Creed, Chronicle), Sofia Boutella (2017's The Mummy), and Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals, Bug). In addition to starring in the movie, Jordan is also one of the executive producers on the film, which has the following synopsis:
"In a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young girl...and begins to rebel against society.
HBO Films released a teaser trailer for Fahrenheit 451 that you can watch below. While it doesn't give us a look at the characters of the futuristic world, it does show a fireman's flamethrower lighting up a pile of books.
Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes) and based on the seminal Ray Bradbury book of the same name, Fahrenheit 451 stars Michael B. Jordan (Creed, Chronicle), Sofia Boutella (2017's The Mummy), and Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals, Bug). In addition to starring in the movie, Jordan is also one of the executive producers on the film, which has the following synopsis:
"In a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young girl...and begins to rebel against society.
- 1/12/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Author: Zehra Phelan
HBO has debuted a teaser trailer for the sci-fi adaptation Fahrenheit 451 which stars Black Panther’s Michael B. Jordan and The Shape of Water’s Michael Shannon.
Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes) and written by Bahrani & Amir Naderi the film is based on the groundbreaking book by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 focuses on a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young girl…and begins to rebel against society.
Jordan portrays Montag, a young fireman who forsakes his world and struggles to regain his humanity as he battles his mentor, fire captain Beatty, played by Shannon. Sofia Boutella (The Mummy, Kingsman: The Secret Service) stars as Clarisse, an informant caught between the competing interests of Montag and Beatty.
The cast also includes Lilly Singh (Bad Moms) as Raven, a tabloid reporter...
HBO has debuted a teaser trailer for the sci-fi adaptation Fahrenheit 451 which stars Black Panther’s Michael B. Jordan and The Shape of Water’s Michael Shannon.
Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes) and written by Bahrani & Amir Naderi the film is based on the groundbreaking book by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 focuses on a terrifying care-free future, a young man, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young girl…and begins to rebel against society.
Jordan portrays Montag, a young fireman who forsakes his world and struggles to regain his humanity as he battles his mentor, fire captain Beatty, played by Shannon. Sofia Boutella (The Mummy, Kingsman: The Secret Service) stars as Clarisse, an informant caught between the competing interests of Montag and Beatty.
The cast also includes Lilly Singh (Bad Moms) as Raven, a tabloid reporter...
- 1/12/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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