Coming Soon: A new Jane Austen film adaptation of 'Emma' starring Anya Taylor-Joy & Johnny Flynn

There's a new Jane Austen film adaptation (Note: this new Emma movie is the second film version since Gwyneth Paltrow's Emma 1996 film and the fifth Emma adaptations including two well-known TV versions: Emma 1996 TV Movie with Kate Beckinsale and Emma 2009 TV Miniseries with Romola Garai) of Emma, which is produced by Working Title Films and will be released and distributed by Focus Features (same production company and film distributor of Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice 2005 film). It stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Emma Woodhouse, Johnny Flynn as Mr. Knightley, Bill Nighy as Mr. Woodhouse, Rupert Graves as Mr. Weston, Miranda Hart as Miss Bates, Mia Goth as Hariet Smith, and Callum Turner as Frank Churchill. This new Emma film (has an official Instagram account) has started filming (March 2019) and wrapped principal photography recently (June 2019) and is currently on post-production. No theatrical release date has been set just yet.

Read more info. via THR's October 2018 article below...

Anya Taylor-Joy to Star in Jane Austen Adaptation 'Emma' (Exclusive)

Anya Taylor-Joy, the star of Split and The Witch, has been cast in the title role for Emma, Working Title’s adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.

Music video director Autumn de Wilde is making her feature directorial debut on the feature, which has a script by Man Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton.

Austen’s novel, published in 1815, was a comedy of manners and told of a young woman, Emma Woodhouse, who, despite the best intentions, heedlessly meddles in people’s romantic affairs as she tries to play matchmaker.

(It was also revealed Thursday that Clueless, the 1995 film based on the Austen classic, will be getting a remake from the writers of GLOW and Girls Trip.)

Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title, whose recent output includes The Darkest Hour and Baby Driver, as well as Graham Broadbent (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) are producing.

De Wilde is a photographer and music video and commercial director who has worked with Rilo Kiley, Beck and Death Cab for Cutie.

Catton won the Man Booker Prize in 2013 for The Luminaries, becoming the youngest author to win the esteemed literary prize.

Taylor-Joy broke through with the creepy Witch and went head-to-head with James McAvoy in M. Night Shyamalan’s Split. She is reprising her Split role in Glass, Shyamalan’s highly anticipated follow-up that acts as a sequel to both Split and Unbreakable.

Taylor-Joy recently joined the voice cast of Playmobil: The Movie and will star in season five of Brit crime show Peaky Blinders. She also wrapped shooting Radioactive, a biopic of Marie Curie (starring Rosamund Pike).

Related article via THR:

Bill Nighy, Callum Turner Join 'Emma' Adaptation

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And just like that we have wrapped principle photography on my first feature film, EMMA. // @emmafilm // I can’t wait to share it with you all // Photo I took in rehearsals where it all started with @anyataylorjoy as Emma and #johnnyflynn as Mr. Knightley // Thank you to Eleanor Catton for your incredible adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma” as well as the magnificent joy of collaborating with you // Thank you to my incredible cast and crew as well as @workingtitlefilms @blueprint.pictures & @focusfeatures for all your support

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DAY ONE of production complete. I am thrilled to announce that I am directing Jane Austen’s ”Emma” starring @anyataylorjoy for @focusfeatures @workingtitlefilms & @blueprint.pictures // screenplay by #eleanorcatton // photo by @anyataylorjoy // @emmafilm // “Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.” // #emma #hansomecleverandrich

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P.S. There's also another Emma related screen adaptation...a 'Clueless' Remake in the Works From 'GLOW,' 'Girls Trip' Writers As if! For real. Not that we need another one, the Clueless film starring Alicia Silverstone is already a classic... (via THR)