Flash Traffic

The Irish Elk brings news of a possible tee vee version of Flashman At The Charge, with a screenplay done by the author of the chronicles of Harry Flashman, George MacDonald Fraser. (Just as an aside, if the author himself does the screenplay, do I have any grounds whatever to get cranky about the finished product if I don't like it?)

Unless they're planning to air the thing on Skinemax, I can only assume it will be heavily edited.

Fraser also confirms that he's got another installment of the Flashman Papers in the works. Irish mentions the possibility that it will center on the French intervention in Mexico leading up to the death by firing squad of Emperor Maximillian I in 1867.

Personally, hope that the other leading rumor is true, namely, that the next adventure will find Flashy fighting on both sides of the American Civil War. That he did so is stated repeatedly in other volumes, and Fraser has hinted at committing this story to paper more than once.