Elizabeth Bennet and Mark Darcy could possibly be coming to Netflix.
Deadline understands {that a} TV adaptation of Jane Austen’s Delight and Prejudice is within the works. We’re instructed that The whole lot I Know About Love creator Dolly Alderton has written the scripts and casting remains to be but to be ironed out. The challenge is in improvement and should not make it to display screen.
If it does get greenlit, Delight and Prejudice can be Netflix’s first Austen adaptation since 2022’s Persuasion, which starred Dakota Johnson.
Many iconic Delight and Prejudice variations have been made down the years, together with a film with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen in 2005 and the BBC’s model 10 years prior starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. The Knightley film was not too long ago added to Netflix’s library.
Delight and Prejudice is a novel about love and sophistication. Penned by Austen within the early nineteenth century, it tells the story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mark Darcy, who finally fall in love however need to navigate varied obstacles as Elizabeth’s father seeks a male inheritor.
The novel incessantly seems on best-of lists and has spawned quite a few iconic scenes together with Firth’s much-loved lake scene within the BBC adaptation.
These novel variations are in vogue for the time being. Earlier this week, the BBC revealed it’s making a drama sequence out of Janice Hadlow’s The Different Bennet Sister, which tells the story of Mary Bennet. In the meantime, Emerald Fennell is making a big-budget retelling of Wuthering Heights starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.
Netflix declined remark. The Day by day Mail was first to report on Delight and Prejudice.
