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Pick up your high-waisted bikinis. Showtime announced today that Dakota Fanning will join Andrew Scott in Ripley, the new series set in the world made famous by the 1999 film Talented Mr. Ripley. A psychological thriller based on the 1955 novel by Patricia Highsmith of the same name, Scott (her Hot Priest from Flea bag, your Moriarty of Sherlock) will play proprietor Ripley, a con man hired to travel to Italy to get a businessman’s vagabond son home, while Fanning will be Marge Sherwood, an American who lives in Italy and suspects Ripley’s reasons for traveling to Italy. parents. Sherwood was previously played by Gwyneth Paltrow, who presumably didn’t have time to reprise her role while she was busy creating scented explosives. Fanning and Scott will be extremely attractive on television together, and you must prepare your hearts now.