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Time-traveling Lost in Austen to become a movie
Columbia Pictures is adapting Lost in Austen, a British time-traveling TV miniseries about a modern-day woman who finds herself living the life of a fictional heroine, for the big screen, Variety reported. Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road) is a producer.
The film will center on Amanda, an ardent Jane Austen fan, who lives in present-day New York with her boyfriend, until she finds she's swapped places with Austen's fictional creation Elizabeth Bennet.
The show's original writer, Guy Andrews, is writing the screenplay.
The original four-part series starred Jemima Rooper and Gemma Arterton and aired on ITV in the United Kingdom in September.
By Brainiac1955 at 10:34 AM ON 02/13/09
Why doesn't anyone do the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde?
By budgethero at 3:56 PM ON 02/13/09
poor Jane Eire, no one's doing a scifi spin on her books.
By John Duncan Yoyo at 9:24 AM ON 02/14/09
Is this just a rip off of Jasper Fforde's _Eyre Affair_ with the a more bankable Austen book. Jurisfiction had better send Miss Havisham to fix this.
By Kirsty at 11:23 AM ON 02/15/09
I loved the tv series but why are they making a big screen adaption. It was perfectly good the way it was.
Baffling
By jfairy at 7:59 AM ON 03/15/09
Hmm, Guy Andrews been reading some Jasper Fforde?
I have to agree with John Duncan Yoyo - & it has to be asked - how is this *not* plagiarism?
With the unfortunate demise of Miss Haversham, we will have to rely on Thursday herself (or perhaps even Jack Sprat of the NCD) to sort this one out - my bet is that Guy Andrews is a Pagerunner, probably with a bounty on his head :)
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