British icon Fletcher Christian is set to return to the big screen in “Isabella,” a feature film adaptation of the novel by Fiona Mountain. The novel was short listed for the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year.
The project, which is not yet set up at a studio, is set in the English Lake District and details Mr. Christian’s passionate love affair with his cousin, Isabella Curwen – an affair which many believe set the stage for the Bounty mutiny. The story also explores the rumors of Fletcher’s return to England after the mutiny.
As a sweeping historical romance, producer Darren Reagan believes “Isabella” is a unique and highly commercial project. “’Isabella’ is a timeless tragedy like ‘Romeo and Juliet’ combined with the mystery and mythology of the ‘Bounty’ story,” says Reagan.
According to screenwriter Michaela Lewis, “Fletcher Christian remains one of cinema’s iconic antiheros, but previous films barely scratched the surface of Fletcher’s ambitious and flawed family – we’ve never seen the passionate love story that lead to the mutiny.”
Reagan adds, “It’s ironic that no British actor has ever portrayed the legendary mutineer. We think the time has come for someone like Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe or Jamie Bell to follow in the footsteps of Errol Flynn, Clark Gable and Marlon Brando and portray Fletcher Christian.”
"we’ve never seen the passionate love story that lead to the mutiny.”
ReplyDeleteMaybe in the "novel" it lead to the piratical seizure of the HMAV Bounty, but, in "real life" it has nothing to do with with piratical seizure of the HMAV Bounty. Fletcher Christian was a "pirate". That should be portrayed in whatever new film that comes out. That would make his character more realistic to Errol Flynn who also was in many pirate films.
The 'Fletcher Christian' character portrayed by Errol Flynn, and then Hollywood's Clark Gable/Marlon Brando/Mel Gibson, was scripted from two novels purporting to be history books. Now yet another fictitious literary work is plastered on top of dozens before it, and to perpetuate a cock-and-bull story full of myths about a 'mutiny' that never was, and an historic act of piracy by a minority gang of drugged-high, drunken ruffians that ended in kidnap, rape and bloodshed with the butchering of many Polynesian men, women and children. How romantic is that?
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