Death Comes to Pemberley is apparently filming

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We hated the book with the red-hot fire of a thousand suns and hate the whole idea of the film. Seriously, doesn’t the BBC have good sense, or taste? If they wanted to film fan fiction, there’s lots better out there. Something that’s not boring, and possibly funny, would have been a much better choice. The cast looks good, but one feels they might be somewhat wasted. They’re filming at Chatsworth, which is much too grand to be Pemberley, but that stagecoach long ago left the posting-inn, we suppose. Okay, shutting up now so as not to be a buzzkill.

13 thoughts on “Death Comes to Pemberley is apparently filming”

  1. you’ve reminded me of a rare book, one that I have zero interest in every finishing. It has no redeeming features, although I can conceed that they might make a successful movie if it’s only very loosley based on the book.

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  4. Ruth Rybon

    I think the book gets so much attention because the author is so much loved in England. It was like the emperors clothes, no one dared tell her her book was no good….that won’t stop me from going to see it. I will enjoy almost anything that reminds me of Jane, except zombies.

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  5. Unfortunately, Ruth is right, PD James’s name coupled with Jane Austen’s is what has given green light to this. As it was BBC I had hoped they would used the P&P2 locations, but not, they had blown it up by using Chatsworth and also Howard Castle too (Brideshead for any one who can remember) which are beyond proportion. The only hope now is that maybe script can be improved.

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  6. Yeah, the book really failed, both as a fanfiction and a mystery. Can’t imagine how this is going to be anything other than a complete disaster.

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  8. Kathleen Glancy

    Look, it could be much worse. It is an excellent cast, the screenplay is in the hands of the woman who wrote Calendar Girls, I think it may work better as a TV series than it did as a book. And if they had to have a sequel by an author who is successful in her own right, better by far that they chose this one than the ghastly The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet.

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    • the screenplay is in the hands of the woman who wrote Calendar Girls

      Oh, I liked that movie. This is a good thing.

      And if they had to have a sequel by an author who is successful in her own right, better by far that they chose this one than the ghastly The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet.

      Very true. Very, very true. But if Richard Chamberlain had been available to play Mr. Darcy, who knows what may have happened. 😉

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      • Kathleen Glancy

        Well, Tom Ward, who is to be Colonel Fitzwilliam in Death comes to Pemberley, had a small role in P&P2, though sadly he was never seen in the outfit his character is best known for. So though they lack a Chamberlain they’ve got a Chamberlayne.

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