Adaptations of Nineteen Eighty-Four
In March 2012 it was announced that a consortium of Hollywood production companies including Imagine Entertainment was set to reboot and make a new feature film based on the novel.
[10] The second television version was adapted by Nigel Kneale for the BBC as a Sunday-Night Play in 1954 featuring Peter Cushing as Smith, André Morell as O'Brien, Yvonne Mitchell as Julia and Donald Pleasence as Syme.
Long believed lost, on 12 September 2010 it was announced in the media that a copy had been located at the American Library of Congress, although an approximately seven-minute segment in the middle was damaged and irrecoverable from the NTSC videotape.
on August 27, 1949 as number 55 in the series NBC University Theater, which adapted the world's great novels for broadcast; it starred David Niven as Smith.
[citation needed] Another broadcast on the NBC radio network was made by The Theatre Guild on The Air on Sunday April 26, 1953 for The United States Steel Hour starring Richard Widmark as Smith, Marian Seldes as Julia and Alan Hewitt as O'Brien.
The production featured Bill Needles as Winston Smith, Budd Knapp as Big Brother, Kate Reid as Julia, Frank Peddie as Charington, and Paul Kligman.
In April 1954, it won an Ohio State Award at the 18th American Exhibition of Educational Radio-Television Programs for "powerful and significant drama, superbly presented ... an accurate, gripping projection of a book which hereby gains a vastly wider audience.
A three-part adaptation by Stuart Evans broadcast on BBC Radio 4 8–22 November 1967, with Alan Wheatley as the Narrator, Gary Watson as Smith, Diana Olsson as Julia and Kevin Flood as O'Brien.
[14] Between January 2 and February 7, 1975, the book was read over the air in its entirety by blacklisted writer and Pacifica Radio host Charles Morgan and legendary voiceover artist June Foray, with bridge music and some sound effects.
[19] As part of the 2013 The Real George Orwell season, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a two-part adaptation starring Christopher Eccleston as Smith, Pippa Nixon as Julia and Tim Pigott-Smith as O'Brien on February 10 and 17.
[21] A 2013 adaptation by Robert Icke and Duncan MacMillan for the Headlong Theatre Company, which took the novel's Newspeak appendix as its starting point, has toured the UK extensively, as well as played commercially in the West End.
[30] Music for the production was by Alex Baranowski, sets & costume designs were by Simon Daw, and lighting was by Chris Davey[31] (which was nominated for a Knights of Theatre Award).
