Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia adaptation casts Colin Firth and Kevin Spacey

Most people know about 1984 and Animal Farm, or at least one or the other, though as widely regarded those works are the stigma of these books being part of a school curriculum during an age when most of us aren’t trying to read what we are told to, I think at least one generation may have decided to subconsciously pass on his other work. I find it very interesting how film actually has this huge (even something as big and as lasting The Lord of the Rings) reach regarding being able to possibly make us take a look back at works or at least revitalize them.

Not too long ago one of those ‘studies’/polls suggested that Orwell’s 1984 headed the list of claimed-to-have-been-read-but-not-really list. I don’t think the these things aren’t particularly useful in any meaningful way, but anytime anything we can claims as SF is on any broad list, I find it interesting (Rowling is on that list, that includes Hawking, Joyce, and the Bible!). Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia is not SF. It is his own real life account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, and written with first person-pov. Going back to my above statements, I read about the book/movie this morning and just ordered a first edition (1938 if you want to follow suit). You can read it for free online.

Regarding the film, Colin Firth and Kevin Spacey are attached to the Hugh Hudson directed film. Variety is reporting that Al Clark is producing it – he also co-produced the 1984 adaptation. Hudson has experience in such films, helming I Dreamed of Africa and My Life So Far .

Synopsis:

Autobiographical account by George Orwell of his experience as a volunteer for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, published in 1938. Unlike other foreign intellectual leftists, Orwell and his wife did not join the International Brigade but instead enlisted in the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification (Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxista; POUM). The book chronicles both his observations of the drudgery of the daily life of a soldier and his disillusionment with political infighting and totalitarianism.

    
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