There's plenty of good modern fantasy, just gotta know where to look. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is one of my favorite books ever.
-Me too. What an enjoyable read. I hope they turn it in to a film and treat it with the respect it deserves.
I heard something somewhere about it being optioned to BBC or ??? But who knows if it'll ever go through. I trust BBC to do a good job with it.
From wikipedia Exciting: Even more exciting: I trust BBC to do a good job with it.
-Me too and it appears to be real. On 15 October 2004, New Line Cinema announced that it had bought a three-year option on the film rights to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.[60] Clarke received an unknown "seven-figure sum", making the deal "one of the biggest acquisitions of film rights for a book in recent years".[61] New Line chose Christopher Hampton, whose adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons won an Academy Award, to write it; New Line executives Mark Ordesky and Ileen Maisel were overseeing the production.[62] On 7 November 2005, The Daily Telegraph reported that Hampton had finished the first draft: "As you can imagine, it took a fair amount of time to work out some way to encapsulate that enormous book in a film of sensible length ... [b]ut it was lots of fun – and very unlike anything I have ever done before."[63] At that time, no director or cast had yet been chosen.[63] As of June 2006, Hampton was still working on the screenplay.[64] Julian Fellowes then took over writing duties before the collapse of New Line Cinema.
On 30 November 2012, it was announced that a six-part adaptation of the book was to made by the BBC for broadcast on BBC One. The book will be adapted by Peter Harness and directed by Toby Haynes, and produced by Cuba Pictures and Feel Films.[65][66] In April 2013, various sites reported that a number of co-producers have joined the project, including BBC America, Screen Yorkshire, Bell Media's Space and Far Moor, and that it is to be distributed by Endemol Worldwide Distribution. Pre-production is due to begin in April 2013, and filming later in the year, including locations in Yorkshire and Canada. The number of episodes has also grown to seven.[67]
Clarke is currently working on a book that begins a few years after Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell ends. It will centre on characters such as Childermass and Vinculus who, as Clarke says, are "a bit lower down the social scale"