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]

Yes, I always imagined Fanny blonde too, though I can't imagine how the DNA worked. Unless her mother played the previous Duke false.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Do we know anything about Avon and Fanny's parents other than that their mother was French?

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Not that I can remember. I think the Duchess might have had a temper, but that might be personal canon, or I might be mixing her up with Léonie's aunt who Avon wanted to marry.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the rule that all French characters in Heyer novels must have a temper?

[aella_irene]

For some reason, in my head-canon, the previous Duke was very blond, and their mother looked like Charles II, but had had a blonde mother. I should really put that ficlet up...

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

And was the Charles II-lookalike mother actually the daughter of Charles II (can't work out the dates but you'll know if this is feasible) from the wrong side of the sheets?

[aella_irene]

Yes. (At least, she is in after_waterloo). It works, if you take An Infamous Army and work backwards instead of trying to make These Old Shades and Devil's Cub tally with everything else.

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

The only dodgy bit on DNA would have been two blonde parents producing a brunette child. Although, apparently even that can happen now.