Yeah, he would've been great in that! I think I read that he was offered a part (Gaz?), but he was too busy. 1997, he would have still been doing Sharpe and, depending when filming was, Anna Karenina.
Oh, and since I originally posted this I've watched another thing I WISH Sean had done: River. Stellan Skaarsgaard was good, but Sean would have been superb. I wish we could clone him so he could do more roles.