[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “Fahrenheit 451” — both the HBO movie and Ray Bradbury’s original book.]When Michael B.
Jordan was first approached to play Guy Montag, the book-burning fireman-turned-resistance fighter at the center of “Fahrenheit 451,” he didn’t want the part.“I was a little hesitant about playing this role at first because of the social temperature right now between police and my community,” Jordan told IndieWire.
“I wasn’t really interested in playing an authority figure.”At the time, Jordan hadn’t read Bradbury’s book, and after having lunch with writer-director Ramin Bahrani, reading his script, and studying the 1953 novel, he came around.“My perspective started to shift a little bit, realizing the arc of Montag,” Jordan said.
“He starts in one place — being very much the poster boy of the Fire Department, controlling information and knowledge, burning books and history and art — and he actually comes full circle.
He starts to think.
He gets into the resistance.
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