Fahrenheit 451 | Media Adaptations

Fahrenheit 451 Media Adaptations

Fahrenheit 451 was adapted as a film by the French director François Truffaut in 1966. It starred Oskar Werner as Montag, Cyril Cusak as Captain Beatty, and Julie Christie played the dual roles of Clarisse McClellan and Mildred Montag. It is available as a video through MCA/Universal Home Video.

A musical production of Fahrenheit 451 opened at the Colony Theater in Los Angeles in 1979.

Fahrenheit 451 has also been produced as a sound recording by Books On Tape in 1988 and by Recorded Books in 1982. Michael Prichard reads the 1988 version and Alexander Spencer the 1982 version.

Georgia Holof and David Mettere adapted the book as an opera. It was produced at the Indiana Civic Theater in Fort Wayne in November of 1988.