The Cold War-era classic book 1984, by George Orwell has been previously adapted for film and TV, however, there is word that a new film version may be in the works!

Ron Howard and Brian Grazer (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind) from Imagine Entertainment are teaming up with Julie Yorn (We Bought a Zoo) from LBI Entertainment in hopes of re-creating the literary classic for film.  Both companies were seeking the filming rights to 1984, and, when they both discovered they were fighting for the rights, decided to create the film together.

The Hollywood Reporter provides a brief synopsis:

The book is set in a dystopian society in a perpetual state of war, which in turn leads to a state of paranoia. Propaganda, surveillance, mind control and cult of personality — concepts seen in totalitarian and fascist states such as Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union — were taken to new levels in the book written in 1948 and published in 1949.

The story centers on Winston Smith, who works for a government branch called the Ministry of Truth, where he alters facts and histories but secretly harbors desires of rebellion (as well as desires of a forbidden love affair). The ideas in the novel became hugely influential in the worlds of politics and art, with the author’s name eventually becoming an adjective (Orwellian).

Have you seen any of the previous film or TV adaptations? Would you see a new 1984 film?