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Girls, you may think that you’ve seen just about every iteration of Pride & Prejudice that you could ever want or dream of or need or care about or ever want to see, but did you know that the last major Pride & Prejudice movie, the Keira Knightly one, came out in 2005? SIX YEARS AGO?! (Unfortunately Pride and Prejudice and Zombies still doesn’t seem to be working out, but we can all keep our fingers crossed as tightly as we can, and maybe when they’re crossed we can try to put a bunch of rings on them, like a ring that would fit one finger over both of the fingers, just so we know that they’re crossed really tightly? That’s just an idea but it sounds like a very good one.) (Also, Pride & Predator.) Six years is certainly way too many years between Pride & Prejudices! “But we live in a different world now,” you’re probably thinking. “It’s so modern, the world we live in. How will we relate to a period drama that takes place many years in the past, like a LOT of years in the past?” Well, maybe if you’d just shut up for two seconds you’d understand that lady director Nora Ephron is going to be doing a MODERN TAKE! From Variety:
Sony and Nora Ephron have found a new project to collaborate on: The “Julie and Julia” helmer is attached to direct “Lost in Austen,” a modern take on “Pride and Prejudice.” The story follows a modern Gotham girl transported into the middle of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”
DUH, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? The movie will be based on a BBC miniseries of the same name, written by Guy Andrews. And to sweeten the deal a little (right? this is a deal? all of this is making sense?), we’ve got an exclusive look at a description of the opening scene that sets up the whole movie that is VERY EXCLUSIVE and makes A LOT OF SENSE! I can’t even believe how exciting this is girls, I’m not even ready but let’s do this anyway.
Kelly, which is the name of the main character in the movie, wakes up in her very large bedroom in a nice area of Brooklyn, NY. She looks perfect, but a little groggy. A dog jumps on the bed and it is the cutest dog. “iRobot, bring me my coffee please,” she asks her robot. “Surely!” says iRobot. The iRobot gets her the coffee and the coffee tastes very good. Her bedroom is very stylish and very modern. She has a very modern haircut with bangs that look normal, if not a little TOO modern and nice. She gets up and walks over to her closet to pick out an outfit. “iCloset, pick me out an outfit.” The closet is like the closet from Clueless and it picks her out an outfit and before you know it she’s dressed and ready for the day. Her outfit looks great and is very metallic. She puts on her helmet and gets on her floaty motor scooter and floats to work. She tolerates her job at an office but it’s not what she is passionate about, which is reading. “What’s that gross thing,” asks a coworker. “It’s a book,” says Kelly. “OH GROSS.” says the coworker and then they go away. “Why doesn’t anyone feel the same way about reading as I do?” thinks Kelly, “Is it because books don’t even exist anymore, that’s how modern life is?” Then she gets up, drops the book, and accidentally trips on a hologram. The hologram electrocutes her while her foot is on the book and she gets transported into the book. “WHERE AM I?” she asks. “You’re home,” says Mr. Bingley, who is a character in the book.
OMG THAT SOUNDS SO GOOD. I cannot wait for this movie, I already want to be best friends with the main character.
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Oh for fuck’s sake.
And in the end, Pride and Prejudice were the same person all along TWIST!
I See Prejudiced people
She was read the whole time?!
I hope it takes place in Austin, Texas.
So is she transported into the fictional world of the book, or does she travel through time to a place where these characters exist? And if she’s transported into the book, is it literally into the book? Does she have to be miniaturized, or is it bigger on the inside? And if there’s time travel, is part of the story about her figuring out a way to get back to her own time? Does she invent the flux capacitor? Does she steal a Klingon warship? Does she bring rock and roll to Victorian England? As you can see, I have so many questions.
You forgot the most important question of all: Does she KILL HITLER?
That would at least take care of the “prejudice” part.
Don’t be ridiculous. Killing Hitler would be be too disruptive to her own timeline.
i hope its like when gumby would just walk into a book. i hope the movie is claymation. i hope lydia is depicted as a blockhead.
And in the end, Batman creates a time machine and rescue her! #Gotham
WHY WOULD YOU RUIN LOST IN AUSTEN WITH A MOVIE VERSION?! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1117666/ It’s so delightfully dumb. Mr. Wickham is so cute. Mr. Darcy reminds me of Heath Ledger a little bit. River Song and Lord Grantham play Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. I love it. So much. We don’t need a movie version of a miniseries.
How did I not know about this? I LOVE delightfully dumb movies. I’ve rented Ice Princess, and had the saddest single girl evening ever.
no joke, i usually love delightfully dumb period pieces, but this one was too ridiculous for me (ie…I didn’t find any of the guys attractive and the girl was too obnoxious).
I found myself sucked in the way I did with Twilight–couldn’t stop watching. I actually really did enjoy it, although I didn’t like Elizabeth’s character at all.
I really liked it too! It was completely ridiculous and enjoyable.
Here’s my guess: fictional, yes, tardis, yes, no, no and definitely.
Sorry, that was supposed to be a reply to R2D2!
Kate, I keep forgetting to tell you this, but I think it is very nice that you read and comment on Videogum. I know that when I used to write for a website, my parents didn’t even know what it was called, much less actually read my work. You are better than my parents.
That just can’t be FT! Look at what a great kid you turned out to be.
HA! Good one!
Come on now, don’t be modest.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Hollywood in possession of no good ideas, must be in want of more Jane Austen movies.
Or more English remakes
Does no one realize there are other Jane Austen books? Some with only generally okay adaptations or adaptations featuring BILLIE PIPER.
SHHHHHH. I will not have Persuasion befouled! It already suffered through Bridget Jones 2: Only Tangentially Related to the Original Source Material. As much as I love P&P, I will accept that it sacrificed itself so that its sisters might retain dignity.
Yes, I just anthropomorphized Austen’s literary oeuvre. SHUT UP I’M STILL COOL YOU DON’T KNOW ME.
Mansfield Park is the one I’m thinking of. I’ve found adaptations I enjoy of all the other ones….
Wait… and wasn’t Bridget Jones 1 a modern version of P&P? Like, Colin Firth’s character is named Darcy! And he once PLAYED Darcy!
Guh.
which one has billy piper? gross.
I actually love the BBC’s adaptation of Emma from a few years ago. Have never got through the book, but loved the series.
Yeah that version of Emma kind of got me back into the whole Austen oeuvre. Except for how I still haven’t read anything besides P&P years ago. But now I’ve seen all the movies!
sense and sensibility is pretty awesome, northanger abbey is very silly(but is supposed to be a satire, I guess). Haven’t attempted Mansfield Park yet. I am an English Lit nerd.
My english lit nerd sister couldn’t make it through Mansfield Park.
I believe that Billie Piper is in a BBC Mansfield Park from a few years ago. I have not seen it because I cannot really reconcile her with the character. I have nothing against Billie Piper, but sometimes it is nice just to have the version in my head.
I did really like the Persuasion with Sally Hawkins, which was part of the same Austenmania.
Ooh love that Persuasion. Sally Hawkins can do no wrong in my book.
Yes, that is a good version. And that blonde dude (what is his name) is damn good looking.
Sigh. I will go see this, thus ending my streak of Never Giving Nora Ephron My Money.
Just watch the miniseries! http://www.amazon.com/EPISODE-0001/dp/B003BOQVF0/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1318347533&sr=1-1
I know, it’s good!!
also, i know it’s not Jane Austen, but has everyone seen the latest Jane Eyre? It’s freaking amazing*. Fassbender is the best.
*well, I liked it.
No one can beat the sexiness of Mr. Firth in the BBC P&P
I snorted at the part where she tripped on a hologram. So thanks, my lab mates are definitely convinced I’m doing work right now.
I think it’s important to note that they said Gotham instead of New York. The Batman/Austen crossover that we’ve probably all been waiting for? Is the girl Poison Ivy? Is it finally the movie about Mr. Darcy fighting Poison Ivy that I am sure we’ve all been waiting for?
The Pride & The Prejudice
I actually saw the BBC version of Lost in Austen. It’s available on Netflix.
The girl was teleported into the Pride and Predjudice time era through a secret door in her shower. it was super cheesy.
I saw this too. I was bored and couldn’t watch the entire episode.
Lost in Austen is not really a retelling or a modern take on Pride and Prejudice. It’s more like a spin-off or even fanfic. And yes, as Funky Brewster commented, it was super cheesy.
Lost in Austen is actually a complete departure from P&P–more like choose your own adventure AND it wasn’t a BBC production, but rather an ITV production. Girls don’t get your hopes up at a retelling of Jane Austen…most strict Austenites will cringe at the plot line, while the ones with major Darcy fantasies might cheer a little. That bein said, I’m excited to see what Ephron, Queen of Rom-Coms, will brew.