Andrew Scott Is Giving Moriarty Vibes in the New Ripley Adaptation Trailer

Summary:

• Netflix presented a new trailer for Ripley, a dramatic thriller based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith called The Talented Mr. Ripley.
• The show, as well as the previous titular movie adaptation, features Tom Ripley, who becomes entangled in a series of lies and machinations.

Netflix has just released the new trailer of the Ripley series by Steven Zaillian, which represents a new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley.

This book was previously adapted for the 1960 French thriller Purple Noon starring Alain Delon and, more importantly, for the Matt Damon hit movie of the same name in 1999.

In the new version of Ripley’s story Andrew Scott, the star of Sherlock and Fleabag, portrayed the main character, Tom Ripley, a cunning young man who is hired by a wealthy man to persuade his vagabond son Dickie to go back home from Italy, and this journey promises to result in a series of violence, murder, deceit and fraud.

Aside from Scott’s nail-biting performance in a role of a creepy liar, which is quite similar to his Jim Moriarty, a criminal who confronts Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series, the trailer reveals that the whole series might have been filmed in strict black-and-white, enhancing the submersion into the series’ time period, which appears to be the early 1960s.

Besides, it showcases that the new Ripley must be quite a faithful translation of the events of the original, which suggests some homoerotic content too, which can again be compared to Scott’s recent banger movie All of Us Strangers.

All the main characters from the book and from the previous adaptations also seem present in the show, including, undoubtedly, Dickie Greenleaf (played by Johnny Flynn), the wayward son and Ripley’s future victim, Marge Sherwood (Dakota Fanning), Dickie's love interest, Freddie Miles, Dickie's problematic friend, and Tenente Roverini, the Italian investigator, who later starts following Ripley trying to catch a con artist.

Can Andrew Scott Beat Matt Damon in New Ripley?

The Talented Mr. Ripley movie, directed by Anthony Minghella, made a great success in 1999 and the characters of Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf and Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge Sherwood have become classic and even irreplaceable since there were no other significant attempts to adapt Patricia Highsmith's novel.

The new series features artfully strong cast and unique cinematic code with its crisp black-and-white stylistic, which is predicted to become one of the reasons for its success. People’s love for this story has become widespread over 25 years since the previous Ripley, so it’s definitely time to recall it one more time in a new reading.

Watch Ripley’s premiere on Netflix on April 4.