Disney Plus doing Jilly Cooper's Rivals

[countrylifer]

This is just the best news. I've been waiting for an adaptation of Rivals since I first fell in love with the bounder Rupert C-B in circa 1997.

But the question is who will play him? I can't think of anyone off the top of my head who can fill those boots - any suggestions?

Johnny Flynn as RCB? (Mr Knightley in 'Emma')

Could Anya Taylor Joy play Aggie? I don’t think she is conventionally pretty - she is v waif like.

i like the shout out of Dan Stevens as RCB!

Please make it better than the drivel that was Riders and TMWMHJ!!!!

Yay!

Having Googled him extensively I am now convinced that James Norton is the only possible choice for RCB. He’s got the right kind of aristocratic face.

I meant Julie WALTERS are Mrs Makepiece

Helena Bonham Carter as Maud!

I did wonder!

@Chardonnay73 Gareth Hunt died in 2007...

Ohhhh I loved Rivals!! So many good characters!

Told you he was old!! 🤣

This thread is perfect escapism. I adore it. It’s far better on this thread than in the real world . It’s a jungle out there.
There should be a Jilly Cooper topic 😄

This has made me chortle

How about Colin Farrell for Declan!

Alexander Skarsgard for RCB!!

Imagine the threads in the Jilly Cooper topic! Alfresco shagging tips, where to buy Fracas, advice on running your own TV franchise, how to lose weight when you are a grotesquely obese 11 stone… 😄

@SommerTen but has he got lapis lazuli eyes and is he Mecca for women 😆

He is lovely.

Ooh yes! I may be persuaded away from James Norton…

Sheridan “I’m professionally humble and ordinary” Smith???? I’m offended.

Guardian articles says the adaptation will bring a "2020s lens to the 1980’s" 😐

Yes please I am down for that - I can’t get the comely stable lass to leave DH alone and I can’t decide if AIBU about him whispering “buttercunt” to me at the moment of climax

Oh god, that’s ominous.

Yuk!

@LizzieVereker I said Fern Britain! Much more you - although has she got hair like a Clematis Montana 🤔

You can’t have a woke Rupert Campbell-Black. What would be the point?

Can we have it made by the people who made the wolf of Wall Street maybe? Retain all the scandal and un-pc stuff.