Daisy Edgar-Jones enters the world of Jane Austen’s films in the first trailer for Focus Features’ new film adaptation, Sense and Sensibility.
The Twisters star plays Eleanor Dashwood, one of three sisters who are forced to move into a modest cottage with their widowed mother. There they experience love and heartbreak for the first time.
According to the teaser, director Georgia Oakley has faithfully adapted Austen’s debut novel, with plenty of wide-ranging shots and longing glances. In addition to Edgar-Jones, the cast includes Esme Creed-Miles as Marianne Dashwood, Caitriona Balfe as Mrs. Dashwood, Frank Dillane as John Willoughby, Herbert Nordrum as Colonel Brandon, Bodhi Ray Breathnach as Margaret Dashwood, George MacKay as Edward Ferrars, and Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Jennings.
Oakley’s debut feature film Blue Jean was nominated for a BAFTA and a British Independent Film Award. Sense and Sensibility is produced by Working Title Films, the same company behind romantic comedy classics such as Love Actually and Bridget Jones’s Diary, as well as Austen adaptations such as 2005’s Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley, and 2020’s Emma, starring Anya Taylor-Joy.
Sense and Sensibility has graced the big screen before, most notably in the 1995 Oscar-winning film adaptation starring Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, directed by Ang Lee, just before Titanic set sail. Thompson wrote the script and won his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Focus features will release “Sense and Sensibility” in the US on October 16th. Check out the trailer below.
