Including who will play the roles made famous by Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law.
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, is taking on the part of Tom Ripley for the show’s eight-episode run. In the 1999 film, the titular conman journeys to Italy to strike up a friendship with Dickie Greenleaf, the son of a shipping magnate, who has settled there with his girlfriend Marge Sherwood. Stepping into Jude Law’s butter-soft Gucci loafers as Greenleaf? None other than’s Johnny Flynn, while Dakota Fanning is set to don crisp white shirts, printed midi skirts and a series of excellent coats as Sherwood.
“There’ve been various iterations of the character, some of which I’ve seen and some of which I’ve avoided,” Scott toldin October 2021. “When you’re playing those famous literary characters, you don’t want to just copy. I’m interested in the idea of what queerness is, and otherness, because that’s what I think it’s about. The reason he’s such an interesting character is you can’t quite place him. If Tom Ripley was in a gay bar, I’m not sure that he would fit in there.
, musician and actor Eliot Sumner will appear in a recurring role as a friend of Greenleaf’s who becomes increasingly suspicious of Ripley. It’s not yet clear if this will be a version of Freddie Miles, the obnoxious aristocrat Philip Seymour Hoffman embodied in the original film. Then there’s screen legend John Malkovich, who’s been spotted on set in Venice filming scenes with Scott .