Great Expectations being filmed again. What novels would you like to see on tv?

[Son of Stan]

What the Dickens! Do we really need another TV Great Expectations?
After last year's A Christmas Carol, Tom Hardy, Steven Knight and the BBC are teaming up again for Great Expectations. Now I love a bit of Victorian drama, but could they not try a less filmed Dickens - or even try a different author?
I'd like to see Gillian Linscott's Nell Bray (suffragette amateur detective) books dramatised. Any other suggestions?

 

[Some Random Guy]

Would like to see another crack at the Dresden files. I believe something is in the works.

 

[sad_ken]

Should do The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

 

[JohnSmithUK]

Day of the Triffids

 

[Son of Stan]

Should do The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

There was a 2016 version on bbc I think. Not prime time and I caught one episode which wasn't brilliant.
The Moonstone (TV Mini-Series 2016) - IMDb
I'd like to see a Wilkie Collins that isn't The Moonstone or The Woman in White.

 

[shadowplay]

Josephine Tey deserves a newer audience. I just checked and her last televisation was in the 1980s.

 

[Hulkster]

Michael Crichton - State of Fear

 

[Hardyman's Yugo]

For all they are very old fashioned, I do like some of the John Buchan books. Huntingtower and Greenmantle would make decent dramas imho

 

[Arkle]

A Tale Of Two Cities, sticking with Dickens. It's been adapted for TV several times but last in 1989.

 

[Big Jeff]

Day of the Triffids

Errr it’s been done already- sea water kills them

 

[JohnSmithUK]

Errr it’s been done already- sea water kills them

A modern day remake, or even a modern day reboot may be interesting.

 

[Son of Stan]

A Tale Of Two Cities, sticking with Dickens. It's been adapted for TV several times but last in 1989.

I like a bit of French Revolution. I like cats AND the French Revolution.

https://imgur.com/a/dVhtu34

 

[Big Jeff]

A modern day remake, or even a modern day reboot may be interesting.

Aye the quality of the old film is terrible and the plants look crap

 

[Son of Stan]

Josephine Tey deserves a newer audience. I just checked and her last televisation was in the 1980s.

Was it The Franchise Affair? I seem to recall seeing that one way back.

 

[fyl2u]

James Herbert's The Rats trilogy.
Ben Elton's This Other Eden
Ben Elton's Blind Faith
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Clive Barker's Weaveworld
Clive Barker's Imajica
William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

...and as much as I think the Kenneth Brannagh version is probably definitive, I'd quite like to see a new version of Henry V.

 

[shadowplay]

Was it The Franchise Affair? I seem to recall seeing that one way back.

Yeah. Brat Farrar a couple of years before that.

 

[Son of Stan]

James Herbert's The Rats trilogy.
Ben Elton's This Other Eden
Ben Elton's Blind Faith
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Clive Barker's Weaveworld
Clive Barker's Imajica
William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

...and as much as I think the Kenneth Brannagh version is probably definitive, I'd quite like to see a new version of Henry V.

The King on Netflix with that Timothee Chalamet lad is based on Henry IV parts 1 & 2 and Henry V - I haven't seen it personally, so can't comment.

 

[tonyfromalnwick]

The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter, sequel to The Time Machine.

 

[Harry Angstrom]

A hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

BBC 4 radio version was brilliant.

 

[shadowplay]

One of the John le Carrés that hasn't been touched recently, maybe The Looking Glass War.