Daisy Edgar-Jones to star in remake of classic Jane Austen period drama

Daisy Edgar-Jones is set to lead a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved book, Sense and Sensibility.

Focus Features and Working Title Film announced on Wednesday that the Twisters star would be taking on the lead role as Elinor Dashwood.

The project sees the production companies take on yet another one of Austen’s books following their 2005 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, and their 2020 adaptation of Emma starring Anna Taylor-Joy and Johnny Flynn.

Sense and Sensibility will see Georgia Oakley direct and Diana Reid write the script.

Oakley is best known for directing Little Bird, Blue Jean, and the short film Callow & Sons.

Daisy, 27, teased her upcoming role to her followers on social media as she posed with the Penguin Classics book with an eye emoji as the caption.

Daisy first came to fame starring opposite Paul Mescal in the TV series Normal People.

After starring in the series as Marianne, she went on to appear in a number of major movies, including Fresh, Where The Crawdads Sing, On Swift Horses, and Twisters.

Sense and Sensibility was famously adapted in 1995 with Emma Thompson playing Elinor Dashwood and Kate Winslet as her sister Marianne Dashwood.

Hugh Grant starred as Elinor’s love interest Edward Ferrars, with Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon, the man constantly pining for Marianne.

The story focuses on the wealthy Dashwood sisters who are part of the landed gentry but are suddenly left with a meagre inheritance after the death of their father.

They are forced to attempt to secure their financial security by marrying well, but of course, complications arise as they hunt to navigate their change of circumstance.

There is to be a variety of classic adaptations coming in the next few years, with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi set to star in Salburn director Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights.

A remake of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has also been announced by Netflix and is set to star The Crown’s Emma Corrin, Slow Horses star Jack Lowden and Olivia Colman.

The six-part series is set to be written by journalist and author Dolly Alderton, who wrote the critically acclaimed novel, Everything I Know About Love.

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