'Serenity'
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Ew. What a travesty.
I mean, the enterprise was suspect from casting on. There was a BBC version from a few decades ago that was less lush than the Hitchcock but was cast to perfection, with Charles Dance as Maxim, Emilia Fox as 2nd Mrs. de Winter, and the late great Diana Rigg as Mrs. Danvers.
Diana Rigg was just about perfect as Mrs. Danvers. I think I disliked - almost loathed Max, who was supposed to be romantic - was that he married Rebecca to achieve the perfect hostess/mistress for Manderly and then, when she was just that, despised her for being just that. After her death, he then married this naive young thing - in the book she never had a name - who adored him but was not up to being what he'd married Rebecca for.
Vonnie, the Times reviewer also said "Why did they not just plunk Kristen Scott Thomas down in the middle of the screen and call the show Mrs. Danvers? I would watch the hell out of that!"
I always hated the line from end of the film when Max says "You've lost that funny lost look I loved so well." He loved that she looked LOST? Poor her. Even though Olivier was delicious during that era.
Vonnie, the Times reviewer also said "Why did they not just plunk Kristen Scott Thomas down in the middle of the screen and call the show Mrs. Danvers? I would watch the hell out of that!"
I want THAT show.
Much like Wuthering Heights, I never thought of Rebecca as romantic. Lurid mysteries with some romance elements (and totally unlikeable male romantic figures), but not Epic Sweeping Romance.
(Maxim is a weak-willed patsy with no spine. No one can change my mind.)
(Yes, my favorite character in the book is Mrs. Danvers.)
There was a miniseries version from 1979 that I saw on PBS. Jeremy Brett was Maxim. That was my first Rebecca, and my one true Rebecca.
Actually, I'd be more likely to watch Mrs. Danvers - with Kristin Scott Thomas or someone equally good - than a(nother) remake of Rebecca. It would be interesting to see the story from her viewpoint.
But I WAS reminded of a Wuthering Heights with social distancing.
Given that they're setting the story in the Second Age, my first thought was "decadent Numenorean orgy."
On a more promising note, a glowing review from Vanity Fair of a Netflix miniseries that's dropping tomorrow, The Queen's Gambit: [link]
It stars Anya Taylor-Joy as a chess prodigy in 1950's Kentucky, who's one of the handful of young up-and-comers whose work I'm always willing to check out (also see: Florence Pugh, LaKeith Standfield.)