While BNW ‘80 captures the spirit of Huxley’s novel and maintains its dark, pessimistic tone, and runs long enough to go deeply into the book’s themes, plot and dialog (unlike BNW ’98), it’s undone by its low-budgeted sets and costumes. Keep in mind that Universal-the studio that brought you ABC-TV’s Battlestar Galactica and NBC-TV’s Buck Rogers in the 25 th Century-backed this adaptation, so don’t expect a big-budget Blade Runner (1982) dystopia. In the wake of the Star Wars-inspired sci-fi revival sweeping the film and television industries, NBC-TV took another swing of the light saber with their first version of Huxley’s novel that aired on March 7, 1980-a mere three months after their British-produced adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles aired in January. Donaldson, Tabori helmed the SyFy Channel’s “mockbuster” of Cowboys vs. (In another Star Wars twist: the 1998 version also starred mainstay U.S Television actor Kristoffer Tabori as John the Savage, who later provided voice work on several Star Wars video games. The poor reviews are attributed to its script being a greatly abridged version that was “loosely based” on Huxley’s concepts and not a straight adaptation of the novel. Their second, previous version released in 1998 as an 87-minute telefilm starring Peter Gallagher ( While You Were Sleeping, NBC-TV’s Law and Order: SVU) and Leonard Nimoy ( Star Trek, Baffled!) was derided by critics and sci-fi fans as being “bland” and “boring” and inferior to the 1980 version. As of September 2019, the currently in-production series is slated to air on the conglomerate’s recently launched online streaming service, Peacock.
Initially developed for NBC-TV’s SyFy Channel imprint in 2015, the production moved to NBC’s USA Network division. Set to premiere in 2020, the Universal co-production with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, unlike Universal’s first two TV movie productions, is being produced as a weekly series.
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