So, we decided, let's look at what works here and then examine the utopia.
There is no want, except for people who chose to secede from the World State and the World State culture. And in what ways is it better than the world we live in? There is no hunger. So, what we wanted to do was let's take Huxley's world on its own merits and look at the ways in which it might actually work. So, we've seen it in things like Westworld or Metropolis or so many things, and usually all of those stories end with a riot in the streets and everyone's dead and the treasures of civilization lie in ruins and we're supposed to applaud at this point. It's such a token in science fiction and it's again a Marxist idea of the proletariat revolt. MORRISON: Well, I felt we'd already seen so many stories where we see the oppressed underclass rising up. Why were you interested in coming at the story from the utopian aspect? He also gets into other projects he's been working on lately, including a script for a Flash film he collaborated on with Ezra Miller. Via phone, he talked about how he approached the story, whether or not they ever considered making the show as a limited series, and why they made certain changes from the original text.
Morrison, well-known in the comic book world for his wild takes on superhero tales, was involved in finding ways to update and expand upon Huxley's original text in ways that would make it work as a TV show, something he had experience with after being involved in the SYFY adaptation of his graphic novel series Happy!.
However, it also was in some ways a product of its era, especially when it came to things like the treatment of its female characters, which was something writer Grant Morrison knew when he signed on to executive produce the Peacock series adaptation. The classic novel Brave New World is a remarkably prescient work of fiction, as Aldous Huxley's 1932 take on a not-exactly-utopian future society tapped into a number of issues that would end up becoming a regular part of our lives.
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