Priscilla: a bold feminist retelling of Elvis’ dark fairytale marriage: In director Sofia Coppola’s new biopic Priscilla, we meet the future Mrs Presley in 1959 when she is a typical 14-year-old all-American schoolgirl, hanging out at a diner and sipping a Coke. She meets the 24-year-old Elvis Presley during his military service and the two …
Julia by Sandra Newman: a vibrant retelling of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell apologised to his close friends the writers Anthony Powell and Julian Symons for his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. He told one that it was “a good idea ruined” and the other that “I ballsed it up rather, partly owing to being so …
There’s no such thing as a ‘faithful retelling’ of the Arthurian legend: The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne Jones. Wikimedia Justice League director Zach Snyder has said he is interested in working on a “faithful retelling” of Arthurian myth. Cut to a small horde of Arthurian scholars (myself included) entering stage …
Cursed: retelling of Arthurian legend puts women centre stage in an era of female leadership: Katherine Langford plays Nimue in the latest retelling of the Arthurian legend. Netflix © 2020 Netflix’s new series Cursed, based on the illustrated novel by Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler, is a retelling of the Arthurian legend – but like …