The Mummy star Sofia Boutella is in talks to join Michael B. Jordan (Creed) and Michael Shannon (Man of Steel) in the upcoming Fahrenheit 451 cast, according to Variety.
The HBO movie adaptation of the classic Ray Bradbury novel would show Boutella as Clarisse, “an informant caught between the competing interests of Montag and Beatty.”
Jordan will reportedly play Montag, a fireman who tries to shake off the role he’s taken on after meeting Clarisse, who teaches him about the past.
In the dystopian novel, television and media exist to numb the populace, history has been eradicated and “fireman” burn all the books.