Masterpiece scoops up the French-made English-language The Count of Monte Cristo TV series starring Sam Cliflin (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) and Jeremy Irons (Watchmen).
After the failure to launch the 2024 French film Le Comte de Monte-Cristo in the States, two more adaptations of The Count of Monte Cristo, hoping for American distribution, have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.
The 1981 film The French Lieutenant's Woman, starring Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep in breakout roles, is an intriguing attempt to bring John Fowles’ book to the screen. Is it still worth watching?
Our Classics Revisited series looks back at one of the most famous period dramas of all time, the eleven-part 1981 adaptation of Brideshead Revisitedstarring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews.
