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By India McCarty
Get ready for another trip into Jane Austen’s England with the upcoming movie adaptation SENSE AND SENSIBILITY.
“Daisy Edgar-Jones is set to headline a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic Sense and Sensibility for Focus Features and Working Title Films,” Deadline reported. “The project returns Focus and Working Title to Austen’s body of work, following their collaboration on an Academy Award-winning 2005 adaptation of PRIDE & PREJUDICE and a 2020 adaptation of EMMA.”
Edgar-Jones plays Elinor Dashwood, who learns about the complications of love, alongside her more-impulsive younger sister, Marianne (Esmé Creed-Miles).
The rest of the cast includes Caitríona Balfe as Mrs. Dashwood, Frank Dillane as John Willoughby, Herbert Nordrum as Colonel Brandon, Bodhi Rae Breathnach as Margaret Dashwood, George MacKay as Edward Ferrars and Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Jennings.
Related: PRIDE & PREJUDICE 20 Years Later: Stars Reflect on Bringing Jane Austen’s Story to Life
Sense and Sensibility was Austen’s first published work, with the book going out as “by a lady.” Subsequent novels were published as “by the author of Sense and Sensibility.”
A 1995 movie adaptation of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY scored seven Oscar nominations, including a win for Best Adapted Screenplay for Emma Thompson, who also starred as Elinor.
This movie comes at a perfect time; last December, the world celebrated Austen’s 250th birthday, with people around the world remarking on the powerful influence her work has had on literature.
“She has written books that are endlessly re-readable,” author Devoney Looser told CBS. “You can read her on the level of the word, the sentence, chapter, plot, character, and appreciate what she’s done in terms of craft. And on top of that, they’re funny and they’re incredible works of social criticism.”
Lizzie Dunford, the director of Jane Austen’s House, agreed, telling NBC News, “Austen’s voice centers a female lived experience and takes us into the minds and emotions of her characters. She explores feelings, conflict, small things, but the small things that make and shape our lives.”
“That is why people in 1813 could read these novels and feel, ‘This woman is speaking to me.’ And that’s why people today can read these novels and say, ‘This woman is speaking to me.’ Because she takes you so deeply into the inner worlds of her characters,” she continued.
A Netflix adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is also currently in production starring Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet and Jack Lowden as Mr. Darcy. A release date for the six-episode limited series hasn’t been confirmed, but it will drop sometime this year.
Audiences around the world can’t wait to see this new take on SENSE AND SENSIBILITY when it hits theaters Oct. 16.
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