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20-08-05, 04:20 AM
Another adaptation (after Bride and Prejudice) of Jane Austin novel, with the name “Pride and Prejudice” starring Keira Knightley will release on November 18th.
Keira plays Elizabeth Bennet who slowly, and against all odds, falls head over hells in love with the haughty and rich Mr Darcy.
With a superb supporting cast including Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Rosamund Pike and Dame Judi Dench and their refreshing performance it is a possibility that the film will win some Oscars and Orange-Bafta nominations.
Joe Wright, the director of the movie admitted he was surprised to find himself directing a Jane Austen tale. “I thought it was the last thing I’d ever do. I thought I was a bit cool and a bit groovy and imagined I’d do some gritty film as my first feature,” he laughed.
He recounted how he took himself off to his local pub one Sunday to read Deborah Moggach’s script (which later got a little help from Lee Hall and some added ’sparkle’ from Emma Thompson).
“By the end, I was weeping into my pint,” he said. “I was shocked by its emotional punch. It’s such a classic because it speaks inherent emotional truths that are there now and always have been there.
“I’m not interested in the class structure. I’m not interested in English heritage or traditional values. What I am interested in is that these people are experiencing the same emotions, the same problems of falling in love that we are today.”
Joe Wright next project will be an adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel Atonement. The film is at Working Title, with Christopher Hampton (The Quiet American, Dangerous Liasons) writing it.
The novel is a multi-layered affair, starting in the summer of 1935 when a 13 year-old girl returns from school for summer with her family. Amid the small family drama of love and illness, one hot afternoon Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony’s sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge.
By the end of that day Briony makes a mistake that will echo through the rest of her life.
In Atonement Ian McEwan takes the reader from a manor house in England in 1935 to the retreat from Dunkirk in 1941; from the London’s World War II military hospitals to a reunion of the Tallis clan in 1999.
“It’s a wonderful novel but it’s an extraordinary structure and I’m trying to get that structure across,” said Wright. “I don’t want to tell it in a linear kind of fashion. I think when one’s doing an adaptation – Pride and Prejudice or Atonement or any novel – it’s important to adhere to the plot points, but also I think one’s trying to achieve a kind of cinematic equivalent of the aesthetic of the prose. That’s tricky.”
“If all goes according to plan, we’ll be shooting that next spring or summer.”
Keira plays Elizabeth Bennet who slowly, and against all odds, falls head over hells in love with the haughty and rich Mr Darcy.
With a superb supporting cast including Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Rosamund Pike and Dame Judi Dench and their refreshing performance it is a possibility that the film will win some Oscars and Orange-Bafta nominations.
Joe Wright, the director of the movie admitted he was surprised to find himself directing a Jane Austen tale. “I thought it was the last thing I’d ever do. I thought I was a bit cool and a bit groovy and imagined I’d do some gritty film as my first feature,” he laughed.
He recounted how he took himself off to his local pub one Sunday to read Deborah Moggach’s script (which later got a little help from Lee Hall and some added ’sparkle’ from Emma Thompson).
“By the end, I was weeping into my pint,” he said. “I was shocked by its emotional punch. It’s such a classic because it speaks inherent emotional truths that are there now and always have been there.
“I’m not interested in the class structure. I’m not interested in English heritage or traditional values. What I am interested in is that these people are experiencing the same emotions, the same problems of falling in love that we are today.”
Joe Wright next project will be an adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel Atonement. The film is at Working Title, with Christopher Hampton (The Quiet American, Dangerous Liasons) writing it.
The novel is a multi-layered affair, starting in the summer of 1935 when a 13 year-old girl returns from school for summer with her family. Amid the small family drama of love and illness, one hot afternoon Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony’s sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge.
By the end of that day Briony makes a mistake that will echo through the rest of her life.
In Atonement Ian McEwan takes the reader from a manor house in England in 1935 to the retreat from Dunkirk in 1941; from the London’s World War II military hospitals to a reunion of the Tallis clan in 1999.
“It’s a wonderful novel but it’s an extraordinary structure and I’m trying to get that structure across,” said Wright. “I don’t want to tell it in a linear kind of fashion. I think when one’s doing an adaptation – Pride and Prejudice or Atonement or any novel – it’s important to adhere to the plot points, but also I think one’s trying to achieve a kind of cinematic equivalent of the aesthetic of the prose. That’s tricky.”
“If all goes according to plan, we’ll be shooting that next spring or summer.”