Morrison, well-known in the comic book world for his wild takes on superhero tales, was involved in finding ways to update and expand upon Huxley's original text in ways that would make it work as a TV show, something he had experience with after being involved in the SYFY adaptation of his graphic novel series Happy!. However, it also was in some ways a product of its era, especially when it came to things like the treatment of its female characters, which was something writer Grant Morrison knew when he signed on to executive produce the Peacock series adaptation. The classic novel Brave New World is a remarkably prescient work of fiction, as Aldous Huxley's 1932 take on a not-exactly-utopian future society tapped into a number of issues that would end up becoming a regular part of our lives.
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