It’s a Canadian crossover nobody expected.
Showrunners for the CBC’s “Anne” released a clip of the series’ opening sequence on Thursday, tracked to the tune of a beloved hit from The Tragically Hip.
Gord Downie’s iconic first verse of “Ahead By A Century” helps viewers sail through a dreamy golden woodland, introducing them to the latest adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables books.
Fans marvelled at the combination of the two genres.
Filmed in Ontario and P.E.I., the revival will preserve Anne’s fiercely independent and curious nature — timeless characteristics that have charmed readers all over the world since 1908, executive producer Miranda de Pencier said.
“Anne is a survivor. She's someone ... that stays positive in the face of real crushing difficulty and that's inspiring,” de Pencier told The Canadian Press.
Actress Amybeth McNulty plays Anne Shirley in the new series which premieres Sunday. “Anne” is also set for release on Netflix later this spring.
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25 Canadian Books To Read In Your Lifetime
A Short History of Progress(01 of25)
Author:Ronald Wright Pages: 224The Description: "Big questions" From Amazon: The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: where will this growth lead? Can it be consolidated or sustained? And what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future? (credit:Amazon)
A Student Of Weather(02 of25)
Author:Elizabeth HayPages: 376The Description: "Love and other accidents"From Amazon: At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters.
A Tale For The Time Being(03 of25)
Author:Ruth OzekiPages: 432 The Description: "Brilliant and unforgettable" From Amazon: In Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century.
All My Friends Are Superheros(04 of25)
Author:Andrew KaufmanPages: 108The Description: "Strange and romantic" From Amazon: All Tom's friends really are superheroes. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding the Perfectionist is hypnotized by her ex, Hypno, to believe that Tom is invisible.
Among Others(05 of25)
Author:Jo WaltonPages: 304The Description: "Sci-fi award winner"From Amazon: Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds.
Autobiography Of Red(06 of25)
Author:Anne CarsonPages: 160The Description:From Amazon: Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five.
Annabel(07 of25)
Author:Kathleen Winter Pages: 480The Description: "Bridging divides"From Amazon: In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once.
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories(08 of25)
Author:Alistair MacLeodPages: 176The Description: "Superbly crafted stories" From Amazon: MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the unquiet spirits of a Highland past, invoking memory and myth to celebrate the continuity of the generations even in the midst of unremitting change.
Beautiful Losers(09 of25)
Author:Leonard Cohen Pages: 280The Description: "Experimental novel of the 1960s"From Amazon: The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint.
Belonging(10 of25)
Author:Isabel HugganPages: 352The Description: "Essays on home and away"From Amazon:Belonging is an intimate conversation between the narrator who needs to examine her life because it has not turned out as she expected, and her readers, who will find their own concerns illuminated in surprising ways.
Better Living Through Plastic Explosives(11 of25)
Author:Zsuzsi Gartner Pages: 232The Description: "Biting satire" From Amazon: Whether [Gartner] casts her eye on evolution and modern manhood when an upscale cul-de-sac is thrown into chaos after a redneck moves into the neighbourhood, international adoption, war photography, real estate, the movie industry, motivational speakers, or terrorism, [she] filets the righteous and the ridiculous with dexterity in equal, glorious measure.
Bow Grip(12 of25)
Author: Ivan E. CoyotePages: 224The Description: "Beguiling storytelling"From Amazon: Joey is a good-hearted, fortysomething mechanic from small-town Alberta whose wife has recently left him for another woman. When a stranger named James approaches his shop and agrees to purchase a beat-up blue Volvo in exchange for a beautiful, hand-crafted cello, Joey sees it as an opportunity to finally make some overdue changes in his life.
Brown Girl In The Ring(13 of25)
Author:Nalo HopkinsonPages: 256The Description: "Vivid dystopia" From Amazon: The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways — farming, barter, and herb lore.
The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams(14 of25)
Author:Wayne Johnston Pages: 608The Description: "Historic fiction"From Amazon:The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is a novel about Newfoundland that centres on the story of Joe Smallwood, the true-life controversial political figure who ushered the island through confederation with Canada and became its first premier.
Come Thou, Tortoise(15 of25)
Author:Jessica GrantPages: 432The Description: "Offbeat"From Amazon: Audrey (a.k.a. Oddly) Flowers is living quietly in Oregon with Winnifred, her tortoise, when she finds out her dear father has been knocked into a coma back in Newfoundland. Despite her fear of flying, she goes to him, but not before she reluctantly dumps Winnifred with her unreliable friends.
Walls: Travels Along the Barricades(16 of25)
Author:Marcello Di CintioPages: 288The Description: "At the world's edges"From Amazon: Di Cintio shares tea with Saharan refugees on the wrong side of Morocco’s desert wall. He meets with illegal Punjabi migrants who have circumvented the fencing around the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. He visits fenced-in villages in northeast India, walks Arizona’s migrant trails, and travels to Palestinian villages to witness the protests against Israel’s security barrier.
This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall!(17 of25)
Author:Gordon Korman Pages: 144The Description: "Still hilarious"From Amazon: Bruno Walton and Boots O'Neal are far from being fine young Canadians. The roommates and best friends are nothing but trouble! Together they've snuck out after lights-out, swapped flags, kidnapped mascots . . . and that's only the beginning.
This One Summer(18 of25)
Authors:Mariko Tamaki, Jillian TamakiPages: 320The Description: "Lives of girls and women"From Amazon: Rose and Windy are summer friends whose families have visited Awago Beach for as long as they can remember. But this year is different, and they soon find themselves tangled in teen love and family crisis.
We So Seldom Look On Love(19 of25)
Author:Barbara GowdyPages: 240The Description: "Collection of short stories" From Amazon:We So Seldom Look on Love is Barbara Gowdy’s wholly original and powerful look at what constitutes the ever-revolving realm of love.
Three Day Road(20 of25)
Author:Joseph BoydenPages: 408The Description: "Devastating and truthful" From Amazon: It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned.
Whale Music(21 of25)
Author:Paul QuarringtonPages: 224The Description: "Rock and roll"From Amazon: Des Howell is a former rock 'n' roll star who never leaves his secluded oceanfront mansion. Naked, rich and fabulously deranged, he subsists on a steady diet of whiskey, pharmaceuticals and jelly doughnuts and occasionally works on his masterpiece, "Whale Music."
Trauma Farm(22 of25)
Author:Brian Brett Pages: 384The Description: "Rural memoir"From Amazon: For 20 years writer Brian Brett has tended a small island farm, affectionately named Trauma Farm. This illuminating memoir of his experiences allows readers to reconnect with the land and get closer to the source of our food.
White Stone: The Alice Poems(23 of25)
Author:Stephanie BolsterPages: 96The Description: "Down the rabbit hole" From Amazon: These evocative poems move from the icon of Alice in Wonderland to the imagined figure of Alice out of Wonderland: on a Vancouver beach.
Virginia Wolf(24 of25)
Author: Kyo MaclearPages: 32The Description: "The power of art"From Amazon: Vanessa's sister, Virginia, is in a "wolfish" mood -- growling, howling and acting very strange. Vanessa tries everything she can think of to cheer her up, but nothing seems to work. Then Virginia tells Vanessa about an imaginary, perfect place called Bloomsberry.
Who Do You Think You Are?(25 of25)
Author:Alice Munro Pages: 240The Description: "Age old question"From Amazon: Rose and her stepmother, Flo, live in Hanratty — across the bridge from the "good" part of town. Rose, alternately fascinated and appalled by the rude energy of the people around her, grows up nursing her hope of outgrowing her humble beginnings and plotting an escape to university.