Fahrenheit 451 (TV Miniseries)

Fahrenheit 451 is an upcoming 3 part TV Miniseries based on the Ray Bradbury novel of the same name.

Synopsis
In the year 2155, 75% of all books are made illegal, with certain exceptions. Firefighters are no longer tasked with putting out fires, they now find contraband books and burn them to ashes, along with the houses they were found in.

Guy Montag has been a hard working firefighter for years, respected by his co workers and the public, when he meets a teenage girl called Clarisse, he starts to realise how monotonous his life truly is. He starts secretly keeping books, eventually discovering a secret society of book memorizers planning to reintroduce literature to the greater public.

Main Cast

 * Michael Fassbender as Guy Montag - A firefighter who's job is to burn books.
 * Jennifer Lawrence as Mildred Montag - Guy Montag's wife.
 * Dove Cameron as Clarisse McClellan - A 17 year old girl that befriends Montag and makes him question his life.
 * Hayden Christensen as Captain Beatty - The Captain of the fire department.
 * TBA as Mrs. Blake - A woman caught with a large number of banned books that burns herself.
 * Kevin Bacon as Faber - A former literary professor.

Minor Cast

 * TBA as Edward Black - One of Montag's co workers.
 * TBA as David Stonemason - One of Montag's co workers.
 * TBA as James Gaffey - One of Mildred's friends.
 * TBA as Juliet Gaffey - One of Mildred's friends.
 * TBA as Chad Bowen - One of Mildred's friends.
 * TBA as Eva Bowen - One of Mildred's friends.
 * TBA as Patrick Osprey - One of Mildred's friends.
 * TBA as Laura Osprey - One of Mildred's friends.
 * TBA as Mark Cooper - One of the EMTs that helps Mildred when she overdoses on sleeping pills.
 * TBA as Raymond Brookside - One of the EMTs that helps Mildred when she overdoses on sleeping pills.

The Hearth and the Salamander
Guy Montag works as a book burning firefighter. After a day of work, burning illegal books, Montag meets a teenage girl called Clarisse, who seems more questioning about the world. When she asks Montag if he is happy, he assures her that he is. When Montag returns home, he discovers that his wife, Mildred, has overdosed on sleeping pills. He calls EMTs to help her and realizes he isn't happy with his life.

Over the next few weeks, Montag and Clarisse talk on Montag's walks to and from work and develop a friendship. Where Montag admits that his wife developed an addiction to VR after an accident prevented her from having children. Montag arrives for work when he is nearly attacked by the robotic Hound that the firefighters use to hunt book owners. One day, Montag, fire chief, Beatty and 2 other firefighters, Black and Stonemason, are called to a book owner's house, an elderly woman called Mrs. Blake, who refuses to leave her books. After the firefighters douse all her books with kerosene, Montag tries to pull her out of the house, until she lights a match and sets herself on fire.

That night, Montag returns home, where he discovers that Clarisse had died when she was caught in the crossfire of a gang shootout. He arrives home while his wife is using VR and he hides a book he rescued from Mrs. Blake's. When Montag gets sick, Beatty visits him and tells him the truth about the firefighter's history, after more books were deemed controversial due to certain people finding them offensive, the government outlawed certain books, as time went on, more and more books were banned, as buildings were made completely fire proof, the original job of firefighters was made obsolete, so the job of firefighters was changed to destroying outlawed books. Mildred finds the hidden book and tries to burn it, until Montag stops her and reveals that he has been saving books for a year.

The Sieve and the Sand
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Burning Bright
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Changes

 * In the novel, Montag realizes he isn't happy with his life as soon as he gets home from meeting Clarisse, in the miniseries, he realizes it after the 2 EMTs save his wife from an overdose.
 * The VR used in the series is more like what real life VR is.
 * The series specifies that certain books, such as children's books, diaries, cookbooks etc. are all legal. Illegal books are also read sometimes in schools for educational purposes, but are rigged to self ignite if taken off school grounds.
 * In the novel, Montag reveals the reason he and his wife have no children is because his wife didn't want any, in the series, it's because she had to have surgery after a car accident that left her infertile.
 * In the series, there is a branch of the firefighters that work on computers to track people that may be reading illegal books online.
 * Clarisse dies in a gang shooting rather than a hit and run.
 * In the novel, books were outlawed because the rise of visual forms of media rendered books obsolete, while some people believed they were banned because the government was trying to control people's education. In the series, books were banned because too many people found books to be offensive, people still think that the government were trying to control people's education, but Beatty confirms that it isn't true (Although, he does explain that it may have played a small factor.).
 * Mildred Montag isn't as cold and distant in the series as she is in the novel. She genuinely still loves Montag and shows concern when he is sick or stressed, she is also more sympathetic when he tells her about Mrs. Blake burning herself and when Montag finds out about Clarisse's death.
 * While other adaptations only specifically list extremely well known books being banned, such as the Bible, the series also lists more modern books that were written after the original novel, such as the Harry Potter series, To Kill A Mockingbird and even 50 Shades of Grey.