More reasons to be warry of the Brideshead Revisited remake

I gave some reasons before (Video & Commentary: "Brideshead Reinterpreted"?), and add some today:

I don’t mean to be contrarian, but I suspect that the remake of Brideshead Revisited which Nathaniel mentions may not be as promising as he thinks. I wrote a little bit about the outrageously silly trailer: The new adaptation seems remarkable mostly because Emma Thompson’s Lady Marchmain is re-imagined as the villain of the piece.

It’s an open question as to whether the new version of Brideshead excises the Church from the story (as I’ve heard) or worse. A friend sends me this astonishing essay by screenwriter Jeremy Brock, who penned the new adaptation. (Jonathan V.)

Once again, modern artists demonstrate a brazen ability to destroy the achievements of the past.