
What Brand New Shows Does NBCUniversal's Peacock Have?Īccording to an interview Brave New World showrunner David Wiener gave with Inverse, the TV version seems likely to live on, and could be part of an Epsilon uprising. Every Movie Already Leaving Peacock from Shrek to Jurassic Park. Ironically, however, his hermitage makes him even more famous, bringing crowds of people to his tower who are fascinated by this (to them) primitive man who eschews pleasure and instead chooses to whip himself. Partly, his reason for hiding himself was to get away from his celebrity, with the world fascinated by this "savage" who comes from a world where monogamous marriage is still practiced. In the book, John (Alden Ehrenreich) becomes disillusioned with the artificial pleasure of life in New London and becomes a hermit, living in a tower and purifying himself with a whip. To do that, the Peacock version of Brave New World has to get rid of the novel's very definite, very downbeat ending.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the book and TV version of Brave New World. The Peacock version, in contrast, tries to follow The Handmaid's Tale and take a book with a definite ending and turn it into a show that can run for multiple seasons. Brave New World, the classic 1932 sci-fi novel by Aldous Huxley, has been adapted a number of times, but the two previous adaptation have been limited series that mostly tell the story from beginning to end.