Why are they making another Emma?

[doadeer]

I've seen the trailer twice and I'm not keen on the characters at all! I don't get the Emma or Mr Knightly casting.... For me the Gwyneth Paltrow one is just great.

What does everyone else think about the new version?

Miranda is funny. I think she could be the definitive Miss Bates.

@Patroclus This!

My favourite adaptation is 'Clueless', too.

But I'll be going to see this.

(And given Austen has provided the template plot for hundreds and hundreds of novels, I suspect it'll be a while before the re-make mania stops.)

doadeer

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I thought Gwynth Paltrow was truly awful as Emma

I remember a television version of Emma years ago , with Kate Beckinsale very good in the role. That was when she was a real actress, before she turned into a Hollywood Barbie doll.

Cal McDermid wrote a good updated re-setting of 'Northanger Abbey'.

A film of it set in a publishing firm (or even in a family of film executives in LA) would work.

Can 'Clueless' be bettered, though?

Most of the casting looks spot on although (and it may be because I'm getting older) whoever is playing Mr Knightly doesn't look old enough (but then again, that's all a bit 'hmm' to modern viewers/readers. The fact that, as an adult, he knew her as a child and still fell in love with her).

Ooh-love Johnny Flynn!

Think he looks rather fine in the long, mustard coloured coat.

I don't think that the actor playing Frank Churchill is good looking enough though.

Jonny Flynn is 36. Emma was 20 when the book begins, and Mr Knightley was 16 years older than her, so his age is spot on.

Every new generation wants a version with 'their' people in it. Unfortunately (for those in a different generation) this means they put their own interpretation on it too. I didn't like the Gwinnie version, although I loved Jeremy Northam as Mr Knightley!

No version matches the version in my head, sadly.

PS. I loved Clueless too!

At least it isn’t sense and sensibility. No-one can replace Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon

Gwyneth Paltrow was pretty awful but oh Jeremy Northam can never be bettered.

This new Mr Knightley looks far too young and feckless. Emma is my favourite Jane Austen but even I've had enough of her recently! And releasing it on Valentine's Day, eurgh.

Just watched the trailer after wondering if their was a need and I’m sold.

There was something in the trailer about 'a reimagining of' wasn't there?

Maybe in this version she tells Mr Knightley to stick it and runs away with Miss Bates?

@Patroclus Im glad we're out of that period in which Keira Knightley was in/ruining every period drama ever though

YES!!! This with bells on!

God yes... Keira Knightly as Lizzie Bennet was an abomination.

The problem is the now toff world of acting giving themselves easy jobs.

I hated the Paltrow one.

Then again, anything with Miranda H in is also unlikely to appeal to me.

The Kate Beckinsale one is just lovely.

I'll never forgive KK for ruining what was (I thought) a really good ITV Dr Zhivago. To be fair she seems like a really nice, normal person in real life but her acting just has nothing to it- a bit of gurning. I still havent watched the Anna Karenina or Lady Chatterley (ridiculous casting) she was in purely for that reason.

Why is the vast list of other great classic authors we have ignored now?

And I'm one of the five people in the world who really liked KK as Lizzie.

I thought the same

Two TV adaptations and one film is plenty and that's not even counting inspired bys such as Clueless.

The new Little Women, whilst solid, was also completely surplus to requirements and I agree with comments on another thread that Behr and Jo were sacrificed to Amy and Laurie in the recent one, but in the 90s one it was the reverse.

I don't think it can be done adequately on film. But the BBC did one in 2018 as well and that was no great shakes either, I barely remember it.

No Pride and Prejudice shall ever rival the 90s BBC one.

It should just be left.

I am only 38 but several recent adaptations have left me feeling old

Johnny Flynn who is Knightly in the new Emma was in ITV's shite adaptation of Vanity Fair, as with new Emma, they basically all looked like 6th Formers, and Laurie in Little Women looked about 12.

Isn't Knightly her fathers age, or closer to than her own? He's her Godfather!

I didn't like the 90s P&P. Hated Colin F, hated Jennifer whatshername, hated Jane Bennet and fucking loathed Alison Bloody Steadman.