I see there will be a new Count of Monte Christo. Now I've never seen the Jim Cavaziel version, not least because I was horrified to learn Albert is his son in that one (way to miss the point, Hollywood!), so my previous Counts on film and tv were:

( Mild spoilers for three versions )

So, some years ago, I was very entertained by Dickensian, a tv miniseries that smashes various Charles Dickens canons into each other on a general prequel basis, i.e. lets their backstories take place simultanously and in connection to each other, with the death of Jacob Marley (which is a murder to be solved) as the narrative read thread holding ( Read more... )

That feeling when you read an adventure novel starring Alexandre Dumas (père) and a fictional German teacher (female, also in a wheelchair), and the villain calls himself "Lemaitre", does his villainous deeds via hypnotism, aims not so much for world domination as he does for setting the world on fire for the hell of it, and in the big climatic ( Read more... )

There is a fantastic new MCU vid, Lions Inside, which also uses the most recent movies, Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarök and Infinity War:

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Now, on to the book meme:

21. Summer Read

Why not try the first of the Order of the Air novels by Jo Graham and Melissa Scott, Lost Things? For me, each of them are a great summer read, but it does make sense ( Read more... )

In which Gaius Baltar's ancestor or descendant guest stars, this show's version of the Athos and Milady backstory is revealed and Porthos gets both backstory and dimension.

( Also the show does what I never expected it to do re: Porthos' casting )

Aka, the new BBC show "based on characters by Alexandre Dumas", which is a wise credit to insert in your opening titles because it tells your audience at once the show won't have anything to do do with the novel beyond using the same names and perhaps one or two vaguely similar situations. This being said, I was amused and not bored, as opposed to ( Read more... )

A few monts back, someone mentioned to me the BBC was planning on a Three Musketeers tv series. The cast and something about the content has now been announced, and I am... cautiously optimistic? I mean, there is still a godawful hangover from the horrid 90s Disney version in the form of D'Artagnan wanting to avenge his father (his father is ( Read more... )

Emerging bleary-eyed from a lot of reading, I bring reccomendations. (Well, the first part of them anyway. More to follow.) As for my own stories, both the recipients liked them and wrote lovely things about them at their own journals (their summaries of what the stories are about are better than mine, drat!), which makes me glad, but not too many ( Read more... )

WE WILL GET A BLACK WIDOW ORIGINS MOVIE. Yes, yes, yes! Of course, now my next question is how much of Natasha's comicbook origins they'll be able to keep. Starting with the date problem, and I doubt they'll go the "genetically enhanced, hence not aging normally" route of retcon that would allow her to have grown up in the Soviet Union, but if she ( Read more... )

At first I thought this was a big practical joke and/or a fannish prank, but apparantly it is for real: Joss Whedon used his spare time (?) between Avengers directing to film Much Ado About Nothing at his house with various of his favourite actors from pretty much every show he ever was involved with. *blinks* I remember first hearing about the ( Read more... )