@Cheri Noooooo! Do. Not. Want.
Is he going to commission someone to do “Z is for Zillionaire“? 😒
@jean Right? I know it's futility to try to control things from beyond the grave, but her husband? Geez. The one person you'd think she could trust!
@artkavanagh @cheri But I do like a number of them: Vera, Shetland, Morse, to name a few off the top of my head. This is galling because she could not have been more clear: "I will never sell Kinsey to Hollywood. And I have made my children promise not to sell her. We've taken a blood oath and if they do so, I will come back from the grave, which they know I can do." Apparently her husband was not on board?
@jean I haven’t seen much of either Vera or Shetland and read just one of Anne Cleeves’s books, so I can’t really compare. I always felt that John Thaw played Morse as too refined and intellectual — though he was certainly capable of playing thuggish, as he had done in The Sweeney. It didn’t help that the producers of Morse made him a Mozart lover (because Mozart’s music was free of royalties and Wagner’s wasn’t). But yes, I was overgeneralizing when I said that most adaptations are rubbish. Many are.
@artkavanagh i think Thaw started to put on more of a face of intellectualism as he grew older - and his parts fitted accordingly.