The theme... DYSTOPIAN FUTURES
AS IF OUR CURRENT WORLD ISN’T SCARY ENOUGH, THESE RELEASES EXPLORE WHAT MAY COME NEXT…
IS BIG BROTHER WATCHING YOU? This autumn sees a slew of films, TV and books about dystopian futures and government conspiracies, just in time for the US presidential election in November. On the small screen, Sky’s Brave
New World – based on Aldous Huxley’s groundbreaking 1932 novel – imagines a future that has achieved peace through the prohibition of privacy, money and family.
Starring Jessica Brown Findlay and Demi Moore, social order is enforced by the distribution of a drug called Soma but, naturally, a rebellion is on the horizon… Also on the small screen, Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn pens Amazon’s
Utopia, a black comedy-conspiracy drama led by American Honey’s Sasha Lane, about a group of comic fans who are mercilessly hunted by a deep state organisation after coming into possession of an underground graphic novel.
Meanwhile, at the cinema, don’t miss the return of the blockbuster with Scarlett Johansson as international assassin Natasha Romanoff in Black Widow. She’s being hunted after the USSR is disbanded and is forced to confront her past in a top-secret Soviet brainwashing programme, called The Red Room. Finally, add John Lanchester’s Reality: And Other Stories to your bedside table, which brings Black Mirror chills with stories of autonomous home technology taking over our lives.
”GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACYTHEMED FILMS AND TV… JUST IN TIME FOR THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION”