![]() ![]() I feel like Anne’s issues are incredibly relevant and topical right now. I’m not influenced by what’s come before. Why was it time for a new Anne of Green Gables? There have already been so many film and television adaptations of the book.Īnne is timeless, but she’s timely right now. checked in with Moira Walley-Beckett, the show’s Emmy-Award-winning producer and writer, to learn more about her update to Montgomery’s story. The series, which still centers around an imaginative, adolescent orphan plopped into a rural Canadian farm, has already started airing in Canada, and American audiences will get their first taste of “Anne” when it debuts on Netflix this May. Translation: If you’re looking for a sugary costume drama, look elsewhere. But this Anne endures abuse and gets her period, and the show’s theme song is by The Tragically Hip. And she shares a fiery temper and tempestuous red hair with Lucy Maud Montgomery’s heroine. Yes, this incarnation of Anne hates being called carrots, lives at Green Gables and can’t abide Gilbert Blythe. But don’t bank on the protagonist of “Anne,” a new CBC series based on Anne of Green Gables, to rest on the beloved book’s laurels Ready the raspberry cordial and get out your slates-a new Anne Shirley is coming to Avonlea. ![]()
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