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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Dakota Johnson to star in ‘Persuasion’.
The 31-year-old actress is set to star in the upcoming Netflix and MRC Film production, which is based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen.
‘Persuasion’ will be directed by theatre director Carrie Cracknell - who recently directed Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge in ‘Sea Wall/A Life on Broadway’ – in what will be her feature film directorial debut.
Ron Bass and Alice Victoria are writing the screenplay, and Andrew Lazar and Christina Weiss Lurie are producing, while executive producers are Elizabeth Cantillon via her untitled MRC Film Romance label, Michael Constable and David Fliegel.