Joseph Morgan, Hannah John-Kamen join Brave New World Cast
The upcoming adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World has just added a slew of new names to the cast including FANdemonium Network faves Joseph Morgan and Hannah John-Kamen.
Brave New World
The 1932 dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley features a world where humans are genetically engineered and assigned to a class hierarchy that is rigorously controlled by the government. One man sees the flaws in the system and attempts to change it.
Hannah John-Kamen (Killjoys) will play Wilhelmina “Helm” Watson, a gender-flipped version, we assume, of book character Helmholtz Watson. A gifted artist who struggles to find a place for their art in the World State.
Joseph Morgan will play a character called CJack60, a member of the lowest class, the Epsilon. He’s a menial worker. This may require some suspension of disbelief, unless they plan to pile him under a tonne of make-up, as Epsilons are meant to be the shortest and ugliest of the five classes!
Source: Wetpaint.com
Hannah and Joseph join a cast that so far includes Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) and Jessica Brown Findlay as Bernard Marx and Lenina Crowne. Also joining them are Nina Sosanya (Strike Back), Kylie Bunbury (Pitch) and Sen Mitsuji.
About the show
Brave New World was originally in development at Syfy but was ordered straight-to-series at USA Network in February. David Wiener, Grant Morrison, and Brian Taylor will write the series. Wiener will serve as showrunner and executive producer, with Morrison also executive producing. Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of Amblin Television will also executive produce. Owen Harris will direct the first episode and executive produce. Taylor will executive produce the first episode and serve as a consultant moving forward. UCP will produce in association with Amblin.
You can read more from Variety.
