New adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover

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BBC One to adapt Lady Chatterley's Lover

Line of Duty's Jed Mercurio is to adapt a new version of DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley's Lover was censored in English for nearly 30 years since its original 1928 edition. It tells the story of an upper-class woman's affair with her gamekeeper. It was previously directed by Ken Russell as a BBC serial starring Joely Richardson and Sean Bean in 1993.

Jed Mercurio said: "Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature. I'm immensely excited by this opportunity to dramatise its iconic themes in a fresh and original way."

 

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a566434/bbc-one-to-adapt-lady-chatterleys-lover-an-inspector-calls.html#~oClSI0wx1lONhD

[lighty]

Translated:

This "milestone in English literature" is dull, so I'm going to change it up in a "fresh and original way" that has only the barest resemblance to the "iconic" book.

[Sable899]

I'm sure it will do equally well as the other Bean iconic film remake, Anna Karenina.  They'll find some twenty-something flash-in-the-pan wannabe actors, to fill the roles and then cry about it when nobody watches the thing.

[Blue Jay]

Don't forget the mumbling ....

[Annie]

He's not a writer that's known for nice gentle storylines.  The conflict will be well to the fore in this one.  (Not to mention a disjointed storyline to keep the viewer guessing - or confused).

[Sable899]

The one thing that I've always wished for in the adaptations, all that I have seen, is that they always ignore Mellor's internal dialogue that adds so much to his actions in the book. The things that go thru his head are at times comical yet so very much a statement of the social class system of the time period.

[Blue Jay]

I think emphasis has always been on the sexual part of the book and there is so much more than just that.

[bubble]

I thought I heard recently it was Rob Stark who was to play Mellors. He's made such an impression on me, I don't even know his real name.

[Amber]

Yes, it is a shame that it is the nudge-nudge-wink-wink aspects of the book that are always concentrated on rather than the more literary qualities, and the amazing writing of D.H. Lawrence not explored more.  I thought that the BBC  would have been slightly more faithful but then the director was Ken Russell so that thought went out of the window!

Anyway, we'll see - shame it wasn't the era of the Andrew Davies adaptation; think what he did for "Pride and Prejudice" and add Sean - wow!  But it is quite sweet that the metaphorical baton is being passed from screen father to screen son.

His name's Richard Madden btw.