Anita Singh at the British newspaper the Telegraph offers a piece about actor Dominic West, who suggests that the time as come for a new film about George MacDonald Fraser's great character.
Dominic West has called for the “spectacularly politically incorrect” Flashman novels to be given the Hollywood film treatment and introduced to a new generation of readers.
West said the books, by the late George MacDonald Fraser, were a “forgotten gem” deserving of reappraisal.
Fraser took the character, who first appeared as the bully in Tom Brown’s Schooldays, and imagined a life for him in the British Army.
A coward, misogynist and scoundrel, Sir Harry Paget Flashman was immortalised in 12 novels – the first of which was mistaken for a memoir by some confused US critics.
The books continue to sell but West, an unabashed fan, said they deserve to be more widely read.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10836577/Dominic-West-its-time-for-a-new-Flashman-film.html
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10836577/Dominic-West-its-time-for-a-new-Flashman-film.html
Dominic West would be perfect as Flashman. It's way past time to introduce GMF's true genius to American audiences; if not through the novels, then through a film that does justice to the work--unlike the Malcolm McDowell effort.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Mr. Fraser has a good number of American fans and I would love to see Dominic West as Flashman.
ReplyDeletePaul