"Gormenghast" (2000) TV mini-series

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.6/10   

Director:

Andy Wilson

Escritores:

Mervyn Peake (novels)
Malcolm McKay (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

10 junio 2000 (USA)

Género:

Aventura | Comedia | Drama | Fantasía | Misterio

Frase comercial:

77 generations built the kingdom of Gormenghast... Will one kitchen boy bring it down?

Plot:

A villain threatens the rise of a new earl in an ancient kingdom.

Plot Keywords:

Library | Ambition | TV Mini-Series | Tradition | Steampunk

Premios:

4 wins & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Good looking adaptation

Reparto

Celia Imrie	...	Lady Gertrude
John Sessions	...	Dr. Prunesquallor
Warren Mitchell	...	Barquentine
George Yiasoumi	...	Bookman
Ian Richardson	...	Lord Groan
Neve McIntosh	...	Lady Fuchsia
June Brown	...	Nannie Slagg
Christopher Lee	...	Flay
Richard Griffiths	...	Swelter
Jonathan Rhys Meyers	...	Steerpike
Zoë Wanamaker	...	Clarice Groan
Lynsey Baxter	...	Cora Groan
Fiona Shaw	...	Irma Prunesquallor
Olga Sosnovska	...	Keda
Eric Sykes	...	Mollocks

Duración:

232 min (4 parts)

País:

UK | USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.78 : 1

Sonido:

Stereo

Clasificación:

Singapore:PG | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Australia:M | UK:12 | USA:Unrated

Locaciones de Filmación:

Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Compañía:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Trivialidades:

To create a sense of scale and depth when they were photographed, the castle miniatures were placed into large tanks of water to which disinfectant (Jeyes Fluid) had also been added to make it slightly cloudy. The post production house responsible for compositing and other special effects were in awe of the skills and ingenuity of the traditional model makers, but exasperated by the variability of the images that this "organic" method generated, making their colour-correction and image matching tasks much more difficult than with computer generated images.

Citas:

Irma: You are... magnificent.
Steerpike: Thank you, madame. At your service.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Goodbye 2000 (2000) (TV)

Good looking adaptation

This looks like being the year of big budget gothic adventure (all featuring Christopher Lee) with Sleepy Hollow packing them in at multiplexes around Britain and The Lord of the Rings trilogy currently shooting in New Zealand - not to mention this lavish mini-series which is one of the biggest fantasy productions ever staged on British TV.

Gormenghast spent five years in production and it seems like all the hard work was worth the wait.

With an impressive cast including Celia Imrie, John Sessions, Warren Mitchell and Jonathan Rhys Myers, the BBC have ensured that Mervyn Peake's classic tale of murder, seduction and tragic events striking the family of a crumbling castle is a faithful version of a literary classic.

At one point, Sting owned the rights to the books and was planning to star in a movie version - he settled for playing Steerpike in an adaptation from 1984.

It's perhaps best that this ended up as a TV drama: The plot and scale of the original material is far too dense to do justice in a two hour movie.

The casting is excellent, the special effects are fine and direction by Andy Wilson is assured.

Well worth a look.