Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is getting a Netflix series

Netflix is ​​reportedly planning to air a series based on the Oscar Wilde novel. The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Among the names behind the show are Greyis the company of gay producer Greg Berlanti, who has worked on hit TV shows such as: The Flash, Riverdale, Everwood and Red, white, royal blueblockbuster movie My Cop and With love, Simon.

The series will be a modern take on gay playwright Wilde’s story about “the desire for eternal youth,” set against the backdrop of the modern beauty industry. deadline Reports suggest that in a twist on the classic plot, the central characters Basil and Doran (missing the “i” so presumably female) will become siblings.

A Netflix spokesman declined to comment on the report.

In the original, Basil obsessively paints a portrait of Dorian, and after Dorian sells his soul, the painting becomes distorted, while the real Dorian remains young and beautiful, but descends into madness and hedonism.

Executive producers include Katie Rose Rogers, who also wrote the series, and Berlanti’s husband, former Leeds United and LA Galaxy footballer Robbie Rogers, both Emmy nominees. Travel companionsIt stars Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey.

meanwhile Durian Photo gray Considering that the work was first published in 1890, it is not explicitly gay, but there are some homosexual allusions, such as when Basil tells Dorian, “It is quite true that I have worshipped thee with more romance than a man should bestow upon his friend.”

It feels pretty gay, but considering the changes in the new series, I doubt they’ll stick to that subtext. That said, there are weirder things going on. game of thrones.

of Dorian Gray’s photo The book has been adapted several times, most famously as a stage play in 1913, just 13 years after the author’s death, and as an Oscar-winning film in 1945 starring Peter Lawford, brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy, Angela Lansbury and George Sanders.

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