Deadline says the rest of the casting is still in flux. The story focuses on his friendship with the Flytes, a wealthy English Catholic family who live in Brideshead Castle. According to The Daily Mail, Andrew Garfield ( The Amazing Spiderman) will play leading man Charles Ryder, the role initially played by Irons. (One has to assume this is code for Netflix).īut it's the cast that will turn viewers' heads. The BBC is supposedly looking to multiple bidders. Perhaps unsurprisingly, HBO has reportedly signed on for American distribution, though Deadline says that's not confirmed as of yet. Guadagnino is best known for the hit film Call Me By Your Name that helped launch Timothee Chalamet's career, and more recently for the HBO stunner, We Are Who We Are, done in conjunction with Sky TV. The project is led by Luca Guadagnino, who will write and direct. The good news is that the BBC has now gotten their hands on the rights for a remake, and this time, the plan is to go full bore, big-budget, lavish TV series, much like the 1980s original. Like many sprawling novels that cover decades, condensing everything down to a two-hour film didn't really work for Brideshead. His 2008 film had a stellar cast, including Matthew Goode( Downton Abbey), Ben Whishaw ( The Hollow Crown), Hayley Atwell( Howards End), Emma Thompson ( Sense & Sensibility), and Michael Gambon ( Harry Potter), but unfortunately, critics were unimpressed. That's because there was already an attempt to remake it, courtesy of Andrew Davies, he of the many successful Jane Austen adaptations. One might wonder why this historical title hasn't been up for remounting in this era of reboots and reimaginings. It helped spearhead a time of prestige TV in the UK before there was such a phrase to describe it. It also turned the idea that one could make a profoundly faithful TV series pulled mostly from a book's own dialogue a reality.

Based on the book by Evelyn Waugh, the 1981 miniseries made Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews stars. The series, produced by ITV, was not part of Masterpiece Theatre, and instead aired under the Great Performances banner. Of all the old PBS shows, Brideshead Revisited is one of the most famous to come out of the classic period drama era. And if the casting rumors are true, it's one that's bringing a cast list to match. Though many details are still unconfirmed, multiple sources report the new adaptation, produced by the BBC, is planned as a high-profile prestige miniseries. Brideshead Revisited is finally revisiting our televisions come 2022.

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