Daisy Edgar-Jones Leads Fresh Take On ‘Sense & Sensibility’ From ‘Blue Jean’ Director Georgia Oakley At Focus Features & Working Title

British actress Daisy Edgar-Jones is set to lead a new film adaptation of Jane Austen‘s masterpiece “Sense & Sensibility” that has “Blue Jean” director Georgia Oakley attached to helm.

The tantalizing news was tipped off to us from Focus Features, which is teaming up with Working Title Films and November Pictures to bring the classic Austen tale to a new generation of moviegoers and romantics, with Edgar-Jones in the role of Elinor, one-half of the Dashwood Sisters.

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Australian author Diana Reid has been tasked to help pen the film’s script, and they’re calling this a “fresh take” on the story, although it is unclear exactly how different Oakley’s “Sense & Sensibility” will end up being compared to previous versions.

Here’s the novel’s logline as mentioned by Amazon:

A work of romantic fiction, better known as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England, London, and Kent between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative’s property, where they experience love, romance, and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged.

Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films are producing alongside India Flint of November Pictures and Jo Wallett.

Working Title is most recently responsible for movies like Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” Steve McQueen’s “Blitz,” “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” Lena Dunham’s “Too Much” starring Meg Stalter and Will Sharpe; “Crime 101” starring Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, and Monica Barbaro; and “Three Bags Full” starring Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson.

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Of course, one of the most memorable big-screen takes on “Sense & Sensibility” is the 1995 Sony Pictures film directed by Ang Lee (“Brokeback Mountain”) that had actors such as Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman among the cast.