A PASSAGE TO INDIA
EPIC TV SERIES ADAPTATION AT BBC
 |
| The book will become a five part series |
As Deadline reports today, British broadcaster
BBC is set to make an epic period set five episode series out of
A PASSAGE TO INDIA famous classic from
E.M. Forster. Richie Mehta is writing and directing. Written exactly a hundred years ago and adapted last time back in the 80s, it is set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s, with the story revolving around four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Mr. Cyril Fielding, Mrs. Moore, and Miss Adela Quested. The series will apparently “reclaim colonial history” and “turn the novel on its head.”
I fear the BBC, the book is already anti colonialism. What else can they do? Turn the few good white characters into monsters? I think they'll expand Aziz and Mis Quested's friendship into a full blown affair. I only hope it's not as messy as Indian Summers. If they wanted to do something that was both anti-British and pro India they should adapt Louis Bromfield The Rains Came. I was thinking that sweet Matthew could play Tom Ransome, one of the protagonists.
ReplyDeleteThey must not feck it up because they are barely hanging by a thread these days in UK. Hope they don't ruin the casting and ruin the whole thing for us.
DeleteAmen
DeleteThis one is probably not for me.
ReplyDeleteShocker!
DeleteIntenso dramma coloniale che esplora tensioni culturali e spirituali attraverso uno sguardo profondo sulle incomprensioni tra inglesi e indiani.
ReplyDeleteBuona domenica
Inglesi did such horrid things to Indiani, sadly.
DeleteI never read this one, but I'd be up for watching a limited series on it.
ReplyDeleteHe had a number of India set sagas, classics.
DeleteFoster also wrote A Room with a View, Howard's End and other books that were turned into Helena Bonham Carter's vehicles in The 80s.
DeleteI hated adaptations of all of those LOL
Delete