Fahrenheit 451 remake coming !

Darabont said: "Since I was 9 years old I've wanted to make this movie.  I think it is the most eloquent indictment of political intolerance—fascism, if you will—that's ever been written.".

The book was first brought to cinemas in 1966. "Fahrenheit 451" was directed by Francois Truffaut, with Austrian actor Oskar Werner starring as Guy Montag, a fireman living in a society where books are forbidden and fireman do not put out fires, but searchout books and burn them. . People in this society are drugged into compliancy and get their information from wall-length television screens. After falling in love with the book collecting Clarisse. He learns from her why books are so dangerous they have to be burned. People will want to think for themselves. That's when he begins to question the government's motives behind book-burning.

Frank Darabont  pretty much ignored the existence of Francois Truffaut's 1966 version of "Fahrenheit 451". "It really missed on a lot of levels. It was a very bland and lifeless movie, wasn't it? For such a passionate piece of literature the movie just kind of sat there. Also, in terms of visuals, boy, there's nothing we can't do now by comparison to the limited things they could do then. They didn't even try to make the mechanical hound back in Truffaut's day. I'm very anxious to put that on the screen. Early days, yet, but I'm guessing that we'll probably want to do it as a seamless combination of (animatronics and computer animation).".

I disagree with Darabont on "For such a passionate piece of literature the movie just kind of sat there.", i think Truffaud did a wonderful job. But on one point i agree, it was a different time the movie was made, and special effects technology was not, what it is now. The original "lived", because of great actors and fantastic filming. Frank Darabont first has to prove he can bring this story better to the screen, than Francoise Truffaut did.

Source: SCI FI Wire