Netflix has released the first trailer for Persuasion, an adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel of the same name. The preview shows a multiracial love triangle, involving Dakota Johnson (“Fifty Shades of Gray”), Henry Golding (“Crazy Rich Asians”) and Cosmo Jarvis (“Lady Macbeth”).
“Persuasion” was Austen’s last complete novel, published in 1817, shortly after her death. The plot revolves around Anne Elliot (Johnson), a nonconformist woman, convinced to dump the courtier Frederick Wentworth (Jarvis) because she is poor. Now she, with her snobbish family on the brink of bankruptcy, she discovers that Wentworth has returned rich in search of a wife.
The history of the novel has seen several adaptations for television and theater, but this is the first described as a “modern and witty approach”. In other words, it is a production under the colorless filter of “Bridgerton”, which transforms the English aristocracy of the early nineteenth century, already known as an example of “pride and prejudice”, into a model of racial integration rare to see until these days. – so says Meghan Markle.
The adaptation is written by veteran “My Best Friend Getting Married” screenwriter Ronald Bass and newcomer Alice Victoria Winslow (“Seratonin”), and marks the debut of theater director Carrie Cracknell at the helm of a feature film.
The cast also includes Richard E. Grant (“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”), Suki Waterhouse (“Miss Revolution”), Nikki Amuka-Bird (“Avenue 5”) and Edward Bluemel (“Discover the Witches”) .
The first is scheduled for July 15th.
Source: Terra
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