fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors: fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors:Sarah Snook to Star in Jane Austen Adaptation
fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors: fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors:Sarah Snook to Star in Jane Austen Adaptation ‘Persuasion’Mahalia Belo is directing from a script by Jessica Swale.Persuasion, a romance of second chances, tells the story of Anne Elliot who, many years after refusing the proposal of young naval officer Frederick Wentworth, finds herself navigating the waters of English society when Wentworth returns from war a wealthy and decorated captain. As Anne ponders missed opportunities, she must consider her own regrets and unwavering, possibly unrequited love.Snook will play Elliot. BOO! Sarah Snook revealed that this version of Persuasion is dead because of the Netflix version starring Dakota Johnson. Super sad because I personally would have headed to the theatre to see this and also Snook was my preferred Anne Elliot.From Vogue Australia:Case in point: Jane Austen’s Persuasion with director Mahalia Belo, which was meant to be her next project. “The short story is that Netflix decided to greenlight their own, so Fox abandoned the one we were doing, which is disappointing because it was a great script and a director I really wanted to work with,” she says with a shrug. “But had I been doing that, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to come back to Australia so soon and see family and friends.”SOURCE -- source link