Earlier this year, BBC One announced a 3-part made-for-television adaptation of P. D. James's Death Comes To Pemberley (more information about the book, below).
Now we're learning that all of the principal parts have been cast, and filming is expected to begin on location in Yorkshire this month.
The storyline, which combines classic period drama with a suspenseful murder mystery plot, is set six years after the events of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice and is centered on three of its characters: Elizabeth Bennett (played by Anna Maxwell Martin), Fitzwilliam Darcy (Matthew Rhys), and George Wickham (Matthew Goode). A press release from the network provides details on the rest of the cast.
Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married and with two young sons, are preparing for the lavish annual ball at their magnificent Pemberley home. The unannounced arrival of Elizabeth's wayward sister Lydia, however, brings an abrupt and shocking halt to proceedings when she stumbles out of her chaise screaming that her husband Wickham has been murdered.
Darcy leads a search party out to the woodlands, and when they discover the blood-smeared corpse not of Wickham, but his traveling companion. Suspicion is at once aroused. The dramatic and unnerving events of the evening have shattered the peace both of the Darcys and of Pemberley, and as the family becomes caught up in the ensuing murder investigation, a mysterious web of secrets and deceit will threaten all that the Darcys hold dear.
Daniel Percival will direct a screenplay adaptation by Juliette Towhidi. A premiere date is to be announced.
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Death Comes To Pemberley
P. D. James
It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy's magnificent estate. Their peaceful, orderly world seems almost unassailable. Elizabeth has found her footing as the chatelaine of the great house. They have two fine sons, Fitzwilliam and Charles. Elizabeth's sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live nearby; her father visits often; there is optimistic talk about the prospects of marriage for Darcy's sister Georgiana. And preparations are under way for their much-anticipated annual autumn ball.
Then, on the eve of the ball, the patrician idyll is shattered. A coach careens up the drive carrying Lydia, Elizabeth's disgraced sister, who with her husband, the very dubious Wickham, has been banned from Pemberley. She stumbles out of the carriage, hysterical, shrieking that Wickham has been murdered. With shocking suddenness, Pemberley is plunged into a frightening mystery.
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