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The sum total of my knowledge of this project:
Of his... future projects, one is set in England in the eighteenth century. It is a story like a combination of Henry Fielding with Tom Jones and Fanny Hill. “It is a lot like Tom and Fanny. I have already looked at locations and lots of English castles, but it would be very expensive to make. I would have liked to have lived in those days. You either lived in a castle and were very rich, or in a kitchen and were very poor. In fact, I think I have lived in a previous life. I have a very precise memory for details from those earlier times.”
Then he adds gleefully, “I would have felt more at home then than as a man of today. I love the pleasure of the senses; hedonistic, libertine behaviour. I enjoy eating, drinking, enjoying myself, making love” (Iain F. McAsh, “Take 1: People in Camera—BOLD AS BRASS,” Films on Screen and Video 5, no. 2, February 1985, pp. 22–23).
And something else was happening at about this same time. Take a look at “Notes from Broadcast Markets in the U.S. and Abroad,” Variety (weekly), Wednesday, 20 March 1985, p 113:
