To think we don't really need another adaptation of Pride and Prejudice?

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According to the Radio Times the Poldark producers are planning an adaptation of P&P. Now God knows I love a bit of Austen, but there was the 1995 TV series and the 2005 film. And that's just in the last 25 years. And there was a stilted early 1980s version and that awful 1940-something film starring Laurence Olivier. And probably some other versions I've never even heard of. We've even had zombie P&P.

Jane herself must be rolling her eyes thinking 'have you NO imagination?'

There are so many other books that have been languishing patiently waiting for their moment in the spotlight. Let one of them be the prom queen for once!

Which book would you like to see adapted for the screen? I'd love to see a proper version of The Woman in White. I'd heard it was in the works but can't find anything on it.

P.S for all I'm complaining about yet another Pride and Prejudice that's not to say I wouldn't watch it. I just like to moan.

I've been ill over the past few days so decided to watch Sense and Sensibility. The noise Emma Thompson makes when she realises Edward isn't married gets me every time..

I think the male leads should all be from the inbetweeners.

There is no Darcy in THAT lot!

The nerdy one would be a good Mr Collins though.

Tom Holland would make a good Bingley.

I don't see why they need to remake P&P.
Please don't tell me the 1995 version is dated - I remember it being on TV very well.

There must be so many classic books that haven't been adapted for TV that could be remade rather than doing the same ones over and over again.

I watched the BBC version of P&P not too long ago and I felt it hadn't dated at all.

I'd like to see a TV adaptation of Maeve Binchy's Circle of Friends, where as in the book the heroine doesn't take back the cheating rascal! There were lots of good side plots and characters in the book that could be brought out in a series.

Loads of Margaret Atwoods would be good!

I think it's great. Each adaptation tends to be better than the last, though for me no one touch Jennifer Ehle as EB and Colin Firth as MD. Actors make parts their own and I always like to see what can be done with Mr Collins 😁

No one in my eyes can beat Alison Steadmans performance of Mrs Bennet, I even read the book with her voice in my head now and it just makes me 😂

I agree imjustanerd, she was great!

And Benjamin Whitrow as Mr Bennet. I loved him 😊

Please don't tell me the 1995 version is dated - I remember it being on TV very well.

The whole concept of talking about adaptations of a 19th century book as dated strikes me as a bit odd. It's the change in technologies and expectations about production values that make something seem "dated," but the treatment of P&P in the 1995 series is far superior and more faithful to the book than the 2005 film version, in my opinion.

The 1940s version with Laurence Olivier is a bit of a hoot, actually. The costumes are not historically accurate, for one thing. They obviously wanted to show off women's waists. One dress Lizzy wore looked like Scarlett O'Hara at the Twelve Oaks barbecue.

There are so many layers to the novels and each generation reads something new and different into them. A remake was inevitable with the bicentenary. Colin Firth could return as Mr Bennet, but I guess thanks to Helen Fielding he won't be doing that. David Bamber's Mr Collins is peerless, but it could be a good part for Rory Kinnear.
I'd cast Frances De La Tour as Lady Catherine De Bourgh.

As long as at the end, mr darcy doesn't say something stupid like 'you have bewitched me body and soul' to lizzy then I'm all good. Ridiculous line in the film that stood out like a bloody sore thumb for me.

I love Rory Kinnear! I love Tom Hollander too. Am I weird that I prefer Mr Collins

I shall watch, but in trepidation when i read they want to make it darker and "less bonnety" whatever that means.
It will be very hard to beat the 1995 version - especially CF's Darcy. Nobody else has ever captured that hauteur but slight vulnerability of Darcy.
I just hope they get actors of the correct age. Daavid Bamber is brilliant in his characterisation, but in the book he is only about 25 years old I think. Darcy is 28, Lizzy 20 etc. Mrs Bennet is also only in her 40s.
I could give a very long list of all the things that irritated me about the Keira Knigtley film but the scene where they are helping in the kitchen and acting as if they have no servants seriously pisses me off. They had a butler, housekeeper, footman, cook etc.

What made the 1995 version superb though was their use of actual dialogue from the book and Andrew Davies's skilful script which filled in where Jane Austen did not supply the words. There is barely a bum note in terms of matching Jane's rhythm and tone. Let's face it 1995 was good, but Jane Austen is truly perfect.

Birdsong. Fabulous novel.

Birdsong was done fairly recently too

Shall have to read longbourne, sounds interesting!

Long our extension was gorgeous. Lovely and achingly sad.

Longbourne... not long our extension. Ffs

I really liked Longbourne. I was almost afraid to read it after some of the horrors I read before like that novel about where Heathcliff had been during his time away from t'moors.

I would love to see an HBO adaptation of Gone With the Wind.

Nothing can beat Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle !

But they can try and I will watch it :)

Loopy, yes, circle of friends could be a really good tv series to get all the interesting side characters in as well.

Why was the Minnie Driver one so disappointing?

As to P&P, the 1995 version hit perfection that cannot be exceeded.