I think it's funny that that one article states Elizabeth has been locked up in Collinwood for a DECADE since the disappearance of her husband. It really makes one question if this is a plot-point in the script, as the information is just not accurate if its referring back to the original...
That may very well be a plot point from the script as the bit that Liz "has not left the mansion since the disappearance of her husband a decade earlier" originated with the Hollywood Reporter's article about Michelle Pfeiffer. And I wasn't referring to what's being reported in trade papers like Variety and the Hollywood Reporter when I said I take what's said with a mountain of salt - I was referring to a good portion of the other Web sites that love to add their own embellishments to not only the trade papers' reports but to each other's reports.
With the Hollywood Reporters' description of Liz, I can't help but wonder if the script is not just possibly adapting the Maggie kidnapping/brainwashing storyline, but also balancing it with some form of the Liz blackmail storyline. Like others have said, having both would certainly seem to be more story than could be adequately dealt with in one movie. But we'd be basing that belief on how things play out on the original series, and who knows how the script may rework/streamline it. For instance, if there's no Jason in the script, that would streamline it immensely. But, of course, only time will tell...
Who else do we need in the cast? Roger, Carolyn, and David, probably a love-interest for Carolyn
All in good time.
and we need to find out what the name of that waitress is.
I continue to be fascinated that Variety has yet to refer to Heathcote's character by a character name. It's almost as if, like the second Mrs DeWinter, who had no identity in
Rebecca apart from being Maxim DeWinter's wife, Heathcote's character has no identity apart from being a waitress who resembles Barn's long-lost love.