Although he has no release date, Netflix to come Pride and prejudices Adaptation now has a fully confirmed cast. Olivia Colman and Rufus Sewell will direct the Bennet family, with Emma Corrin, Freya Mavor, Hopey Parish, Holley Avery and Rhea Norwood as sadly famous women of Bennet. Jack Lowden will be our Darcey, with Daryl McCormack like Mr. Bingley. The names do not stop there, however, with Fiona Shaw playing Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Jamie Demetriou joining himself as M. Collins.
However, none of these characters are with whom I have a problem. You may have noticed that there are a lot of Jane Austen adaptations that have honored our screens over the years. Infamous Pride and prejudices Films that have helped give history the cultural capital it has today, to the previous version of Netflix on Austen Persuasion It was absolutely beaten online, there was more than anyone could count. So, surely, if you will add another title to the battery, it must be perfect.
While Bennet’s women have completely struck the brand, it was the cast of Mr. Wickham that went up. Take a brick out of the battery and everything falls, and a bit like a lost game from Janga, the casting announcement of Louis Partridge is the one that spoils everything for Netflix.
Louis Partridge is not the right age for Mr. Wickham in the remake of Netflix Pride and Prejudice
If you have read the original book – and almost all book girls in their twenties and thirties will look at the taking of Dolly Alderton with a scathing eye – you will know that Mr. Wickham is a heinous man. Manipulative militia officer who (in 2025) is total waste, Wickham is best known for his predatory behavior, lie and game. In short, it means that it must be a little older and more suspended than the rest of his cast.
Enter Patidge, 22, who is at least seven years younger than the majority of his immediate co-stars. While his long strands and chiseled jaws are objectively ideal for a period drama, his baby face and his sweet eyes do not correspond to the abusive personality which has been assigned to him. Even if he is an incredibly promising actor, I am not entirely convinced that he will be able to remove it.
Of course, none of this is the fault of Partridge. It is more a testimony to the way the best supposed streaming service is lazy with regard to their adaptations. Considering how Persuasion I went the last time that Netflix attempted Austen, he cannot even guarantee a healthy amount of viewers so that production was worth it. So, what does the streamer think adds to the value of one of the most famous fictitious IPS? I guess it does not think you need, it simply goes up on the tails of a well -known story that very few people do not like.
Netflix and Parridge prove me the opposite. If we really want to benefit from another Pride and prejudices Adaptation, I’m ready to eat my hood. But if I am right, and I suspect that I am, no casting announcement in the world could avoid getting on my High Horse.
