AIBU to be surprised there is no proper film about the plague?

[AliceNotInChains]

Would love to see a proper well done movie about the plague - AIBU to be suprised that it hasn’t been done?? Titanic style

I think a film about the Village of Eyam would be brilliant.

Just don’t let emerald fennell near it

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I think you could make a great movie about the village that self isolated (Eyam in Derbyshire). Apparently there's a couple of musicals in existence about it! Eyam - Wikipedia

Cross post! I agree!

I mentioned this upthread. I've just finished reading both The Last Hours and The Turn of Midnight and would love to see them on screen (as long as they don't muck around with the books too much).

As a slight aside, Minette Walters is an excellent historical novelist. I only discovered this recently as I thought she only wrote gory crime fiction which isn't my thing.

If you haven't read them @Daisydoesnt I'd also recommend The Swift and the Harrier and it's sequel The Players, set around the Civil War and the Restoration.

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This has reminded me about a terrifying film for children I saw aged about age 6 or 7 called The Bells of Astercote (had to google the story line to find the name). Some children wander into a wood and when they touch old stones they are transported back to a village filled with plague victims. Proper creepy stuff.

How about a film about the 1518 dancing plague of Strasbourg? People dancing themselves to death while singing a cheery number.

Lin manuel Miranda is the obvious choice

The plague killes up tp 60% of Europes population, so it would be interesting to see a film explore the aftermath, a bit like starting an apocalypse film after the event has been over for a few years. But as PP have said, a film about losing 60% of the population is going to be harrowing!

There is a film from the 1990s about the plague reaching Mediaeval France. The Hour of the Pig, starring Colin Firth.

@itsnotagameshow "I think you could make a great movie about the village that self isolated (Eyam in Derbyshire)."

There was an absolutely superb TV film made about it in 1973 called the Roses of Eyam. I saw it at the time and have watched it since.

The episode of Upstart Crow set during an outbreak of the plague in London (it was written and aired during the Covid period and brilliantly reflected it) is well worth watching. Ben Elton satirised the wearing (or not) of masks during Covid by having Shakespeare ranting about people not wearing "plaguey beaks".

That poor woman who buried her husband and seven children herself (the Riley graves). There are lots of individual stories like Emmett and Rowland who I mentioned above and the Reverend Mompesson who quarantined the village and stopped it from spreading.

Thank you I’ll give them a go! After I’d read the two plague novels you mention I tried another of MW’s in her usual crime oeuvre which I thought it was dreadful!

😆 haha!

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I read A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh as teen - a tragic love story grafted onto actual events and in end surviving heroine marries another childhood friend and head to the new world ie america.

I've seen TV adpations where plauge and great fire or earlier civil war are background to characters journeys.

I mean Histrical film set in upheavel of earliest black death plague in UK 1346 to 1353 - that led to peasant revolt - haven't seen as much it's usually 16 century one that gets the focus.

We so need a biopic of Pepys. Absolute filth.

The 14th century Black Death or the 17th century plague? (Eyam, etc).
There's a strange and beguiling film called The Navigator about the plague but it's pretty surreal.

There was a musical written about the great fire of London which ended the plague of the 1660s. It was written by Robert J Sherman and had one performance at the adelphi theatre in London in September 2016. It was quite good though all a bit make believe

Perhaps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plague_(1992_film)

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