Nineteen Eighty-Four the novel, Winston Smith, is a rank-and-file Party member. Smith is an outwardly diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. Smith rebels by entering a forbidden relationship with fellow employee Julia. As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a classic novel in content, plot, and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as "Big Brother", "doublethink", "thoughtcrime", "Newspeak", "Room 101", "telescreen", "2 + 2 = 5", and "memory hole", have entered into common usage since its publication in 1949. "Nineteen Eighty-Four" popularised the adjective "Orwellian", which
Adaptations of Nineteen Eighty-Four Gina Rosenblum producing and James Graham writing the screenplay. Rudin and Greengrass had also previously worked together on "Captain Phillips". Michael De Luca will oversee production of the upcoming "1984" film for the studio. In November 2014 it was revealed that director Paul Greengrass is working on the film adaptation and it was expected to release in around 2019. The first television version of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" appeared in CBS's Studio One series in 1953. In it American actor Eddie Albert played Winston Smith and Canadian Lorne Greene played O'Brien. The second television version was adapted by Nigel Kneale for the