Sense
Focus Features has just released a trailer for their new adaptation of the famous Jane Austen story, Sense and Sensibility. The film has been helmed by Blue Jean director, Georgia Oakley, from a script that is to be adapted by Diana Reid. Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are both on board as producers for their company Working Title Films. India Flint, from November Pictures, and Jo Wallett will also join in producing the project. The novel was adapted back in 1995 by Ang Lee with Emma Thompson starring in the film, with Kate Winslet pre-Titanic fame.
Sensibility
The new film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, Frank Dillane with George MacKay and Fiona Shaw. Executive producers on the film include Thea Paulett and Angela Moneke.
The official synopsis reads, “From Focus Features and Working Title comes an irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.” Another, more elaborate description from Variety reads, “Originally published in 1811 with the byline By a Lady, Sense and Sensibility was the first novel by Austen, who later wrote such literary classics as Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Persuasion. The story of Sense and Sensibility follows sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who navigate love, loss and financial uncertainty as they are forced to leave their family estate in Sussex.”
Sense and Sensibility will hit theaters this fall on October 16.
Daisy Edgar-Jones
Edgar-Jones was recently seen in the period drama On Swift Horses, for which we got to interview her. The plot of that film read, “Muriel and her husband Lee are beginning a bright new life in California when he returns from the Korean War. But their newfound stability is upended by the arrival of Lee’s charismatic brother, Julius, a wayward gambler with a secret past. A dangerous love triangle quickly forms. When Julius takes off in search of the young card cheat he’s fallen for, Muriel’s longing for something more propels her into a secret life of her own, gambling on racehorses and exploring a love she never dreamed possible.”
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