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

[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.