If you were in the Dickensblog Facebook group or on Twitter today, you might have seen me celebrating the news that A Tale of Two Cities is finally, finally getting a TV adaptation, written by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, His Dark Materials). As others pointed out to me, we've been burned before, but this time I choose to believe it's the real thing. It has to be the real thing sometime, right?
And I'm glad that it's not the team behind the BBC/FX Christmas Carol doing it. Although oddly enough, it struck me at the time that that team might actually do a better job with ATOTC, as there are already plenty of dark, ugly secrets in that story for them to dive into. Still, as you know, I found their work pretty bleak and depressing, and I'm hoping for better things from Thorne.
Feel free to use the comments section below for dreamcasting! :-)
(P.S. Thorne also wrote the adaptation of Christmas Carol that just ran on Broadway. Somehow I missed that!!)
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