Watch Emma Watson And Tom Hanks Ruin The Internet For You With ‘The Circle’

In 2013, McSweeney’s founder and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Dave Eggers blended up 1984, some cultural studies tutes on the panopticon, and all of our Facebook accounts to make The Circle — a dystopian satire of Silicon Valley and modern tech companies.

The book follows Mae: an excited new recruit at a social media/search giant that wants to chronicle all the world’s information and create a state of total transparency. Is it a coincidence that the company is named after a Google+ feature that was launched two years before the book’s release? Are there any similarities between the lofty inspirational speeches of the company’s founder and those of Mark Zuckerberg? Why does the office in the novel sound exactly like the set of The Intern?

Shhhhhhhhhhhh. Dave Eggers is very sick of talking about this and would probably also prefer not to get sued.

Now we have our first look at the book’s on-screen adaptation. Eggers co-wrote the screenplay with director James Ponsoldt (who has a bit of a thing for literary adaptations after The Spectacular Now and The End of the Tour), and the film stars Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, Karen Gillan and John Boyega.

Enjoy logging off for the rest of the day! It doesn’t feel unlike a Hollywood Black Mirror.

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The Circle will be in cinemas April 2017.