Dare I Watch?

Andrew Davies will write the screenplay for Middlemarch (by George Eliot, left). The film will be directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty).

Davies was responsible for the 1995 screen adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth.

As Kate Winslet is married to Mendes, I hope she gets a part in it. She's too old to play either Dorothea Brooke or Rosamond Vichy but who knows .... Afterall, Emma Thompson played Elinor is Sense and Sensibility!

I forgot to post about this earlier but a film (Bright Star) about the Romantic poet John Keats (left) is due out in 2008. It will star the rather simian (IMO) Ben Whishaw (right). Whishaw was also in Perfume and is playing Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited (2008).

Keats was barely 5 feet tall but Whishaw is 5' 9". I guess short men don't sell tickets unless they have hairy feet or chests!

P.S. Matthew Goode (left), who will play Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited, is very yummy. Yes ... well ... it's fun being shallow once in a while ... ;-)

Comments

[Suzette]

Hi Daphne,

I totally agree on Matthew Goode being yummie.

And I just can't wait to see the movies The Lookout and Brideshead Revisited.

Well if you want to see more photos...just check my site.

Cheers,

Suzette

[tunku halim]

Daphne - I'm going to blogroll you. Let me know if you mind, okay? Cheers!