Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Netflix's miniseries Ripley is set in a slightly different time period than in the original novel. The new psychological drama series is based on the renowned 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley by celebrated novelist Patricia Highsmith, the first of her 5-part "Ripley" series that also includes Ripley Under Ground and Ripley's Game.
Related Why Netflix's Ripley Show Is In Black & White The Netflix series Ripley was shot entirely in black and white, a creative choice made by Academy Award-winning screenwriter & creator Steven Zallian. Ripley Begins In 1960 & Ends In 1961 The 1999 film is set in the late 1950's Close The specific year that The Talented Mr. Ripley film begins in 1958, since Tom Ripley is wearing a borrowed Princeton jacket from 1956.
The specific year that The Talented Mr. Ripley film begins in 1958, since Tom Ripley is wearing a borrowed Princeton jacket from 1956, which makes Dickie's father, Herbert Greenleaf, believe they were classmates. This leads to Herbert employing Tom to go to Italy to retrieve his son in the first place. This detail is notably left out of Zallian's adaptation, which instead features a private detective hired by Herbert to track down Tom's location in the first episode of Ripley.
The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted several times for film and television, the most notable of them being the 1999 film starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Highsmith's novel was considered a contemporary novel when it was first published in 1955, indicating that the events in the book took place in the mid-1950s. Zaillian himself has not commented on why he decided to slightly alter the time period from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s.
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