Is Pip the new Sherlock Holmes?

[litlover12]

Not one but two TV series based on Great Expectations are now in development. Where'd that come from?? Did everyone get excited because there was a new miniseries and a new movie, and decide to jump on the bandwagon? But they realize Dickens wrote more than one book, right? Unless gruel and debtor's prison and the guillotine all proved too difficult to modernize . . .

Comments

[tempestsarekind.livejournal.com]

I tend to think that if you're doing a modernization (as opposed to a more "traditional" period adaptation), you go for whatever you think the general public knows well enough to catch the changes and references you make to the original. Or at least if you're selling the project *as* a modern version, anyway.