Casting Heyer

[girlyswot]

callmemadam wonders why Georgette Heyer novels have not made it to the silver screen here. In point of strict fact, I feel obliged to note that The Reluctant Widow was apparently filmed in 1950 but sank without trace (Has anyone seen it? Is it as awful as it is made out to be? The IMDB entry suggests it bore little resemblance to the book.) Still, the field appears to be wide open and since TV and film producers aren't getting round to it, I feel that it is time for my trusty flist to spring into action.

Which Heyers would you most like to see filmed? And what would be your ideal cast?

Comments

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I want The Unknown Ajax with Sean Bean as Hugo. I do not care that he doesn't have the appropriate looks; I know he can do both 'cares for his family, who are driving him completely loco' and 'being Northern, and having been in the 95th Rifles' really well. :) Though alas, he's probably both too starry and too old these days.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes!!! He would sort them all out good and proper.

[aella_irene]

Oh, yes. And Vincent and Claude should look alike, but Vincent should be much, much darker. I think of Claude as blond.

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Naw, I want Hugh Jackman as Hugo. I've had him as my mental image of Hugo for the past decade. That comforting solidity, the ability to look thick as pigshit but not actually be stupid...

To be honest, based on my other comments, I think Hugh Jackman epitomises my ideal big Heyer hero.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I can't really see him as any of them - it's probably something to do with that dire movie he made with Meg Ryan in which he played a time-travelling duke.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Kate and Leopold! One of those films which could have been improved 100 times over by the simple removal of Meg Ryan from the cast.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the one - thank you! Perhaps I'm being unfair on Hugh Jackman; it can't have been easy having to put up with Meg Ryan doing her cute-as-a-button act at close range. (I don't mind her at all when she's playing an alcoholic or whatever, but when what she's basically doing is playing a human version of the Cathy cartoon I can't face it)

Also, probably his accent's got less wobbly since then.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what accent he was even supposed to be doing in that film.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I think I classified it as 'Not Australian'.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

The first time I saw Hugh Jackman was in Oklahoma at the National Theatre and so I do have difficulty imagining him as anything much other than a cowboy. Not that that is a bad thing, but it's not really a Heyer hero.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I have just realised that I think of him as a shortarse because he played Wolverine and the comic-book Wolverine is short, even though in fact whilst watching the X-men movie I thought 'Huh, he's too tall'. The brain is a very weird thing.