Rose Leslie, who played the wildling warrior on Game of Thrones, returns to HBO in The Time Traveler’s Wife, a new show based on the novel by Audrey Niffenegger. The book was turned into a 2009 movie starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana; it did well at the box office but got mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike. Will the TV version fare better?
Well, it has the right guy in charge. Steven Moffat, the one-time showrunner of Doctor Who, is up to his old tricks with this tale of time travel, although it goes deeper than that. “Most love stories end with the altar or the divorce, and this is scrambling it up, showing that love is inextricably linked to loss,” Moffat explained during a TCA panel the other month. “It makes the common interesting, thrilling, with tension and tragedy as well as joy. And I do love a travel story, as my career would suggest. But this is not about time travel, it’s merely a device. It’s about love.”
Sounds promising. Watch the trailer and see for yourself:
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat returns to time travel in The Time Traveler’s Wife
It’s always weird when you associate an actor with a certain way of speaking — say Rose Leslie telling Kit Harington “You know nothing, Jon Snow” in that Scottish brogue — and then hear them do something completely different. Which is to say, hearing Leslie do an American accent feels weird.
But I’m sure I’ll get over it. The Time Traveler’s Wife premieres on HBO sometime in May.
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