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?

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[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I assume that the simple reason that Heyer hasn't been filmed is that she is off the radar of a lot of the types of people who commission dramas, and that even when she comes on to it, she is dismissed as "Oh, only middle-aged women would watch that." Remember, TV exectutives were completely taken aback at the success of the first series of "Lark Rise to Candleford" - they didn't see that there was a large audience for a well-written, well-acted, well-produced, relatively gentle but not soporiric Sunday evening drama...

Adaptations...

[(Anonymous)]

I work for Wordcandy.net, and we recently contacted the English press agency who handles the rights to Heyer's stuff. According to the man I spoke with, the only thing stopping a Heyer adaptation is the fact that most producers believe there wouldn't be a market for one.

Behold:
http://wordcandybooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/georgette-heyers-film-adaptations.html

Clearly, the producers are insane, but there you have it...