Back in March, we brought you the new when Ron Howard and Brian Grazer‘s production company Imagine Entertainment teamed up with Julie Yorn‘s LBI Entertainment to develop a new take on George Orwell‘s classic dystopian novel, 1984.

Now, Deadline reports that Imagine Entertainment has hired Noah Oppenheim to pen the new big-screen adaptation. Oppenheim’s is also scripting The Secret Life of Houdini, and a remake of War Games.

Orwell’s 1984 is set in a dystopian society in a perpetual state of war, which in turn leads to a state of paranoia. Propaganda, surveillance, mind control and cult of personality. The story centers on Winston Smith, who works for a government branch called the Ministry of Truth, where he alters facts and histories but secretly harbors desires of rebellion (as well as desires of a forbidden love affair). The ideas in the novel became hugely influential in the worlds of politics and art, with the author’s name eventually becoming an adjective (Orwellian).

No production or release dates have been announced for 1984.