Heart of Darkness is widely considered a classic of English - language literature , one that ’s influenced and been adapted in a diverseness of ways , include the film Apocalypse Now . One more adaption is on the way , and it ’s decease to broadcast the Joseph Conrad novel to space .
Varietyreports that Sony ’s streaming religious service Crackle — which , man , how is that still around?—is work on a starbound update of the 19th century novel . V and Grimm producer Cameron Litvack will play as the showrunner as well as write . The original book focuses on a Londoner named Charles Marlow ’s journeying into the African continent in hunt of an ivory monger named Kurtz , who wields fell totalistic power over a community of autochthonal people .
The article in Variety enjoin that the Crackle series will reach on the same thematic column as the novel , focusing on political science of subspecies and colonization . marrow of Darkness is an odd pick to adapt and update because it ’s a work that already had a huge influence on various originative medium . But this is a matter that ’s already in the process of heading to a weapons platform that you might be hard - pressed to call up even live .
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