Oh, totally! Much better match to the book's physical template than Ben Barnes, though Barnes and Townsend both work the tall, dark and mysterious thing very well indeed.

As for the twentieth century-ending, yeah, I loved it. But how could Wilde have seen any of that coming, necessarily? His vision of the future is only barely touched on, in the original--Dorian sticks around the stuff he knows best, none of which is likely to change all that radically; rich people still live like rich people, a slum's still a slum. etc.