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Manufacturing is underway on Netflix’s new British Pleasure and Prejudice adaptation, along with the total core and prolonged solid being unveiled! First revealed back in April by Netflix itself however rumored all through 2024, the sequence will encompass six episodes and be a trustworthy interval drama to the acclaimed Jane Austen novel that has seen quite a few variations through the years.
Behind the brand new sequence is The whole lot I Know About Love creator Dolly Alderton, who was connected to the mission early on with Gentleman Jack and Final Tango in Halifax producer Lookout Level behind the mission—BAFTA-winning director Euros Lyn to direct all six episodes.
Mona Qureshi, who joined Netflix from the BBC in 2022 and serves as one among Netflix UK’s drama sequence commissioners, mentioned earlier this yr, “We’re delighted to be sharing this beloved British traditional with our international viewers. Pleasure and Prejudice is the last word romantic comedy. Dolly’s fierce intelligence and massive coronary heart, twinned along with her real love of the Austen novel, imply she is ready to convey new insights, while celebrating all that the generations of followers maintain so pricey. The calibre of a solid led by Emma, Jack, and Olivia is testomony to this valuable story being in the absolute best arms with Euros Lyn and the workforce at Lookout Level on the helm.”
The Netflix Pleasure and Prejudice sequence boasts a powerful behind-the-scenes workforce, with govt producers together with Dolly Alderton, Emma Corrin, Will Johnston, Laura Lankester, Euros Lyn, and Louise Mutter. Lisa Osborne serves as producer, with Peter Nightingale as line producer. The manufacturing design is led by Richard Bullock, whereas Amelia Criminal takes on the function of manufacturing supervisor.
Who’s within the solid of Netflix’s Pleasure and Prejudice Sequence?
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The casting bulletins have are available in two waves to this point. On April tenth, Netflix unveiled the three primary solid members:
- Emma Corrin (Nosferatu) will star as Elizabeth Bennet
- Famously performed by Keira Knightley within the 2005 movie and Jennifer Ehle within the 1995 TV sequence.
- Jack Lowden (Gradual Horses, Benediction) takes on Mr Darcy,
- Beforehand portrayed by Colin Firth (1995) and Matthew Macfadyen (2005).
- Olivia Colman (The Favorite, The Crown) will play Mrs Bennet
- Follows within the footsteps of Brenda Blethyn (2005) and Alison Steadman (1995).
Then on July twenty ninth, as filming bought underway, the total solid record was introduced to the trades and on social media:
- Rufus Sewell (Previous, The Diplomat) will painting Mr Bennet
- Freya Mavor (Skins, The Keeper) performs the eldest Bennet sister, Jane
- Rhea Norwood (Heartstopper) joins as Lydia Bennet
- Hopey Parish (Malpractice) will play Mary Bennet
- Hollie Avery (The Energy) seems as Kitty Bennet
- Jamie Demetriou (Stath Lets Flats, The Afterparty) is solid because the bumbling Mr Collins
- Daryl McCormack (Good Luck to You, Leo Grande) stars because the charming Mr Bingley
- Siena Kelly (Grownup Materials) will painting his sister, Caroline Bingley
- Louis Partridge (Enola Holmes) performs the enigmatic Mr Wickham
- Fiona Shaw (Andor, Killing Eve) seems as Woman Catherine de Bourgh
- Anjana Vasan (We Are Woman Components) will play Mrs Gardiner
- Sebastian Armesto (Gangs of London) joins as Mr Gardiner
- Rosie Cavaliero (KAOS) performs Woman Lucas
- Saffron Coomber (Three Little Birds) portrays Mrs Hurst
- James Dryden (Time Bandits) is Mr Hurst
- Justin Edwards (The Franchise) seems as Sir William Lucas
- James Northcote (Idiot Me As soon as) performs Colonel Forster
- Eloise Webb (The Queen’s Gambit) portrays Harriet Forster
- Isabella Sermon (Jurassic World: Dominion) takes on the function of Georgiana Darcy
The place is Pleasure and Prejudice in manufacturing?
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Pre-production started on the Netflix sequence on Might sixth, in accordance with Manufacturing Intelligence from The Data On-line, with capturing beginning on July twenty eighth, 2025.
Per studies, the six-episode sequence might be in manufacturing for 4 months in whole, that means that it’ll wrap someday in November 2025. The present is filming in and round London in the UK.
That is one among a number of variations Netflix has had within the works for Pleasure and Prejudice. Persuasion is the one adaptation that’s presently streaming, starring Richard E. Grant and Dakota Johnson with The Netherfield Women with Maitreyi Ramakrishnan tapped to star introduced again in 2020 having been quietly scrapped behind the scenes and a remix of the Jane Austen novel (titled Pleasure) by Ibi Zoboi was introduced to be within the works in late 2024 at Netflix.
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