As opinions go, “everybody concerned ought to be in jail” is fairly harsh. But that was one among many deeply disenchanted opinions of Persuasion, Netflix’s adaptation of the Jane Austen traditional.
For many followers of Austen, and of variations typically, the very best variations are those that stick near the supply textual content. So I’m cautiously optimistic that Netflix’s newly introduced and apparently devoted adaptation of Pride & Prejudice goes to soar over the admittedly low bar set by its 2022 Austen adaptation to grow to be among the best Netflix exhibits.
Netflix’s new Pride and Prejudice: what we all know to date
There are numerous causes to be cheerful about this forthcoming six-episode adaptation. The first is who’s writing it; the second is who’s directing it; and the third, fourth and fifth are who’s in it.
The author is Dolly Alderton, who gained a National Book Award for her novel Everything I Know About Love and who completely loves Austen’s e book. It’s “the blueprint for romantic comedy,” she says, and “the e book is a present to adapt – filled with drama and depth in addition to comedy and allure”.
Alderton can also be more than happy to be working with director Euros Lyn, who directed Heartstopper, and with a “stellar” forged.
That forged consists of Emma Corrin (Nosferatu, Black Mirror) as Elizabeth Bennet, and Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Benediction) as Mr Darcy.
Did you already know Lowden is Scottish? He was born in England however grew up within the Scottish borders city of Oxton. I’m so used to seeing him as an English agent in Slow Horses that I used to be genuinely shocked once I heard him speak in his regular Scots accent. But I digress. The fantastic Olivia Coleman (The Favourite, The Crown), one of many UK’s most interesting actors, is Mrs Bennet.
Will this Pride and Prejudice sequence arrive someday in 2025? Probably not: Netflix says the sequence will begin capturing within the UK later this yr. But all of the indicators are that this adaptation might be the whole lot that Persuasion wasn’t, so it might be definitely worth the wait.
