With help from Brian Taylor, with whom he worked on “Happy!,” Morrison developed an adaptation that leaned into character and away from the slew of recent science fiction pieces that presented the future as packed with horrors. An initial treatment hewed closely to the 1932 novel about a future in which a strict global order is propped up by genetic and social engineering, easy access to zero-consequence drugs and sex, and a complex caste system.īut Olmstead felt the story needed a fresher take.

The show was canceled around the same time that UCP and Amblin Television were trying get “Brave New World” off the ground. Morrison signed an overall deal with UCP in 2018 while working on the second season of “Happy!,” which starred Christopher Meloni as an alcoholic ex-cop and Patton Oswalt as the tiny cartoon unicorn that appears only to him. “He goes to dark, dark places of the human psyche, but he knows how to make it redeeming and hopeful.” Grant Morrison FilmMagic “When he goes into a world, he builds it completely from his imagination,” says Universal Content Prods. He has carried that formula over to a burgeoning television career - first to a version of “Happy!” that lasted two seasons on Syfy, and now to an ambitious adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” which premieres July 15 as the tentpole original series on Comcast’s new streaming service, Peacock. In comics, he has a reputation for blending metaphysics, pop culture, humor and genre tropes. But Morrison spent the bulk of his career in comics, creating hugely popular science fiction-fantasy series such as “The Invisibles,” “Happy!” and “The Filth,” and put his stamp on linchpin DC and Marvel properties such as Batman, Superman and the X-Men. TV writers are accustomed to working in close quarters.

But we’re looking at the news every day, and it just keeps getting weirder and wilder.” We’re in the country, so you barely notice what’s been going down. “As a writer, you’re self-isolating your entire life anyway,” Morrison says from his home in his native Scotland.

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