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1. #Showstars hannah update#
2. #Showstars hannah series#

John-Kamen is not inclined to read too much into this trend. The same goes for the bonkers and baffling Netflix adaptation of Harlan Coben’s thriller The Stranger, in which she played the titular role. Ghost, her character in Ant-Man and the Wasp, was a male hacker in the comics.

It is not the only male-to-female gender swap in which John-Kamen has been involved. In Huxley’s novel, Helm is Helmholtz, a man who makes state propaganda. “If you’re not happy, you’re nothing at all,” proclaims John-Kamen’s character, Wilhelmina “Helm” Watson, an “alpha plus” in a silver wig who directs “pleasure bomb” parties – hedonistic, multisensory events that inevitably end in mass orgies.

#Showstars hannah update#

“We’ve got a curfew! It’s all quite scary: the new norms of life and how we adapt so quickly.”Īn update on Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel, the Brave New World TV show is set in New London, a society divided into a strict caste system where privacy and monogamy are outlawed and endless casual sex and the continuous consumption of a mood-enhancing drug called soma are strongly encouraged. “I love things that are a little bit too close to home – thought-provoking things that freak me out,” she says, noting the parallels to our own recently altered state. Star Wars, Game of Thrones and Tomb Raider also feature on her CV.įortunately, the 31 year-old is very much into disturbingly dystopian content.

#Showstars hannah series#

In the past few years, the Yorkshire-born actor has played villains in Steven Spielberg’s 2045-set virtual reality epic Ready Player One and Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp, spent five seasons as an intergalactic bounty hunter in the Canadian sci-fi series Killjoys and appeared in two Black Mirror tech nightmares. Unsettling fantasy worlds have become the stock-in-trade for Hannah John-Kamen, one of the show’s stars. Luckily, the latest series hoping to cut through Covid-era chaos is an adaptation of one of fiction’s most notorious and insidious futurescapes: Brave New World. Shows that revolve around doomsday scenarios, invasive governmental control and populations blithely accepting unthinkable changes to their everyday lives must now up the ante. The popular tv show stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke and Season Two is currently being filmed.M uch as 2016 threatened to put the brakes on political satire, so 2020 makes dystopian drama a difficult sell. Firefly Lane, her novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix show around the world, in the week it came out. Tri Star has also optioned The Great Alone and it is in development. The Nightingale is currently in production at Tri Star, with Dakota and Elle Fanning set to star. Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by the both Today Show and The Book Of the Month club. The Four Winds was published in February of 2021 and immediately hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie bookstore's bestseller lists.

In 2018, The Great Alone became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller and was named the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads. It was also named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week. Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, which was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year.