Almost two decades after the BBC adapted Mervyn Peake’s classic fantasy series Gormenghast, Neil Gaiman is finally achieving his dream of bringing it back to the screen. According to Deadline, FremantleMedia has secured the rights to produce a TV series, with Gaiman and Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind) leading the adaptation.
Gaiman’s spent the past couple of years working to adapt Gormenghast, about the inhabitants of an isolated and decaying castle. He first hinted back in 2015 that he was working on turning it into a movie, with the full support of Fabian Peake, Mervyn Peake’s son. Two of the books were turned into a four-part BBC miniseries in 2000—which starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Christopher Lee—and fans have been eager to see another adaptation.
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I've never read the books but I watched the BBC miniseries. I was not terribly impressed. Hopefully the new film version will be better.
And I was just the opposite. Funny how that goes sometimes.
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