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Netflix and MRC Film have partnered on
Persuasion with Dakota Johnson to star in the lead role. Acclaimed Director Carrie Cracknell, who directed Jake Gyllenhall and Tom Sturridge to Tony nominations last year in
Sea Wall/ A Life on Broadway, will make her feature directing debut.
Based on the novel by Jane Austen, the film takes a modern, witty approach to a beloved story while still remaining true to the classic novel. The story is about Anne Elliot who is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities and living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy. When Frederick Wentworth the dashing one she once sent away crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances.
LOS ANGELES: Jane Austen s heroine Anne Elliot is taking a chance on love again in cinema with Fifty Shades of Gray star Dakota Johnson all set to play the character from Persuasion in a Netflix adaptation.
Acclaimed theatre director Carrie Cracknell will make her feature directorial debut with the movie with Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow set to adapt the novel for new age audiences, the streamer announced on Tuesday.
Cracknell last directed Jake Gyllenhall and Tom Sturridge in Sea Wall/ A Life on Broadway.
Johnson recently starred in the drama Our Friend , and will next be seen in Maggie Gyllenhaal s The Lost Daughter and Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro s Am I Ok? .
Dakota Johnson to star in Jane Austen s Persuasion adaptation
Johnson recently starred in the drama Our Friend , and will next be seen in Maggie Gyllenhaal s The Lost Daughter and Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro s Am I Ok? .
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LOS ANGELES: Jane Austen s heroine Anne Elliot is taking a chance on love again in cinema with Fifty Shades of Gray star Dakota Johnson all set to play the character from Persuasion in a Netflix adaptation.
Acclaimed theatre director Carrie Cracknell will make her feature directorial debut with the movie with Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow set to adapt the novel for new age audiences, the streamer announced on Tuesday.
Washington [US], April 21 (ANI): American star Dakota Johnson has signed on to play the lead in Netflix's retelling of Jane Austen's novel 'Persuasion'.
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