Needs to be Remade

So sad and so true indeed WyldeGoose. Cheers!

I would also fancy a remake because I feel this film is more relevant now than ever and this latest version of the film is very hard to track down even in public libraries but I fear that in today's Hollywood movie culture exactly what you described would happen. Still the source material is there to make a clever and brilliant film in the hands of a capable director.

~What if this is as good as it gets?!~

To tell the truth I read that Ron Howard will remake 1984 for sure
I don't know any name of the cast it's still soon Undoubtedly it'll be hard for Ron Howard to match the movie with Richard Burton and John Hurt because it's flawless. Julia is a difficult character to be played in my opinion because she looks strong yet she hides her fears. So no kung fu babe, please.The actress who will play Julia must be both strong and weak mainly inside not only outside.I agree with all the aforesaid choices as far as the directors are concerned, perhaps Fincher'd be my n°1 choice because of his claustrophobic atmospheres.

I agree that this needs to be remade - that is to say that the story needs to be re-filmed in a fresh way.

The 1984 adaptation is very faithful to the book, especially visually. The problem is that it feels too far removed from our 2015 reality to be relevant. When Orwell wrote the book, the world he described was recognisable to readers at the time - the bomb sites, rationing and inadequate living conditions were almost a pastiche of post-war London. That's why the book seemed so terrifying; the setting was very close to home.

I think a new, modernised adaptation would take nothing away from the 1984 film version and would make the story relevant to a new audience. The book itself is still fresh because the ideas are universal. However, for a film version to be a gripping dystopia, it needs to have clear links to the audience that are watching it. The rise of communism and Stalinism may have been hot on the agenda in 1948, but it ain't now. A 'remake' like this should address current concerns.

There's also the issue of the pacing of the 1984 adaptation. It's rather boring. Visually interesting, faithful to Orwell's vision, great acting, gorgeous cinematography, yes. But no narrative drive. The book is full of awesome ideas, but it hasn't exactly translated into a gripping cinematic experience so far.

That's why I hope this book is adapted again. Because you could really do something interesting with it without being too tied down to the minutiae of the source material. Orwell's book is amazing. But that doesn't mean that it is sacred and untouchable. Doesn't 'adapt' mean to change and adjust to new conditions?

I have lots of ideas and I'm a frustrated filmmaker trapped inside a primary school teacher. So if you're a Hollywood producer, Facebook me, yeah?

I would like to see a new adaptation as well. I think that this version is a very faithful adaptation of the original book. However, as one other poster pointed out, we're so far removed from the world George Orwell was writing in (post-World War II, beginning of the NATO-Warsaw Pact split) that the original message of the book is now somewhat dated.

I think an updated adaptation should focus on the world we live in now, specifically the information age. My idea is to use the actual year of 1984 as the point of historical divergence and have the movie be set more or less in the present day.

The only reason people post on these threads is for casting, so here are my choices:

Winston: Martin Freeman
Julia: Emily Blunt, Keira Knightley or Rose Byrne
O'Brien: Jeremy Irons, Daniel Day Lewis or Idris Elba