Following the TV series adaptation of Lev Grossman's "The Magician", SyFy is now considering a high profiled 20th century classic for its next miniseries project. Syfy along with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television has recently announced that they will be developing an adaptation of the famous Aldous Huxley dystopian sci-fi novel "Brave New World" for the NBCUniversal-owned cable network.

Brave New World is set in a futuristic world where poverty, war or disease do not exist. Here, psychological-manipulating drugs, sleep-learning, rampant consumerism and reproductive technology are combined to make humans conform to the system. Those who violates are forced onto so-called "reservations" until one of them challenges the system, rattling the entire social order.

Les Bohem,who also penned Taken, which won the Emmy award for best miniseries and gained six other nominations in 2003, will adapt the classic novel while Bohem, together with Amblin TV co-presidents Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey will executive produce. The upcoming drama will be coming from Universal Cable Productions.

This adaptation will be reuniting Taken producers Frank and Falvey with Bohem, Chairman Bonnie Hammer of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group and  Dave Howe of Syfy. Aside from them, they will also be working with Universal Cable Productions Executive Vice President of development, Dawn Olmstead, whom they worked with in producing ABC's summer drama "The Whispers".

Howe, president of Syfy, consider "Brave New World" as "one of the most influential genre classics of all time," stating that "its provocative vision of a future gone awry remains as powerful and as timeless as ever."

Aside from "Brave New World", other high profiled script projects Syfy is currently developing and producing include the newly-ordered series pickup of Lev Grossman's best-selling book "The Magicians"; the 10-episode series "The Expanse"  starring Thomas Jane ; Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End", airing this December; Gale Anne Hurd's 13-part thriller "Hunters"; David Goyer's Superman prequel, "Krypton"; and "Incorporated", a pilot from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.