It’s Still Nineteen Eighty-Four

David Luhrssen at Shepherd Express.

"When Orwell, nearing death on the remote Scottish island where he completed the manuscript, learned of proposals to adapt Nineteen Eighty-Four into a Broadway musical, he remarked that he 'doubted if it lent itself to the stage,' but added, 'I should think it ought to be filmable.'

"In his book On Nineteen Eighty-Four, British writer D.J. Taylor elegantly summarizes Orwell’s life in the context of composing what became, alongside Animal Farm, his most enduring novel. Oddly, the great Nineteen Eighty-Four film has never been made (why wasn’t Stanley Kubrick on it?)."

See Orwell, Animal Farm, in Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 60.