In 1986 I saw the Merchant-Ivory film “A Room with a View“, immediately went to the library to borrow the E.M. Forster novel, read it, and returned to see the movie again a few days later. I remember a summer night in Cambridge, Massachusetts when some friends and I put the soundtrack on auto-repeat and played a 2,000 point all-night game of Spades. On trips to our favorite poster store I would hope to find an Italian version of the movie poster, which I had my heart set on buying (only French and English were in stock). The movie still tops my favorites list. Now, twenty years later in the U.K., ITV is making a new movie adaptation of the novel — not a movie remake the producers would stress, but a fresh interpretation of the book. With such strong actors inhabiting the original roles, Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham-Carter, Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, it will be extremely different for fans of the first movie to accept new characterizations. But the classics are constantly reinterpreted on film, so a new approach to the details could be very welcome. Eileen Quinn, head of drama for the production company, is blogging about her experiences working on this new adapation. Casting details lie therein.