First photo released for HBO's upcoming Fahrenheit 451 adaptation is lit!

First photo released for HBO’s upcoming Fahrenheit 451 adaptation is lit!

July 21st 2017, 1:43pm

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

So this is exciting! I’m a huge fan of Ray Bradbury‘s seminal dystopian novel FAHRENHEIT 451, and have been looking forward to a decent movie adaptation for a while now. François Truffaut tried his hand at it once in 1966, but while it was an admirable attempt with some striking images, it didn’t really do the novel justice. I mean, there wasn’t even a robot firedog!

Now it seems Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon are headlining an upcoming HBO film based on the novel from director Ramin Bahrani, and Jordan has just released the first look at the film via Instagram:

In this world, the firemen start fires! #Fahrenheit451 is coming to @HBO

A post shared by Michael B. Jordan (@michaelbjordan) on Jul 20, 2017 at 9:40am PDT

Looks good to me! Now, of course, that’s not a lot to go on yet, but at least the costumes are on point (that’s pretty much how I imagined they looked from the descriptions) and it confirms that people will indeed be burning things in it. Of course there’s more to the novel than just that, but this is still a good start. Also Michaels B. Jordan and Shannon are great in everything (even shit), so even if the movie fails to deliver, I doubt they will. Still looking forward to it though!