For some he will be forever Mr Darcy, but Mr Darcy is going contemporary for Michael Winterbottom's Genova, a widowed man who travels to Italy to escape his past, yet is haunted by it.
Darcy and Winterbottom will begin filming after Winterbottom completes A Mighty Heart, currently filming in India and starring Angelina Jolie. And not Mr Darcy.
...Hang on, replace all those times we said Mr Darcy with Colin Firth. Except the first one. We can't be bothered.