Yet. Another. P&P. Film. Adaptation.
Not when the class is film and the homework is making a feature-length movie that will hit the big screen this spring and later be submitted to the film festival circuit.
“Movies are, like, my whole life,” Letkemann said during a break from a recent Sunday of rehearsals and shooting for How to Be Hated, based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. “I love acting, it’s like a big passion for me. It’s not like it’s work, it’s homework or I have to be here. I want to be here.”
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Students spent the fall semester writing the script for the romantic comedy, which takes Austen’s tale of three sisters being courted by various men and focuses on the middle child, Liz, who is the new girl at her high school, struggling to fit in.
We kid, of course. Never enough Jane, right? And it’s not like it’s the first time somebody’s filmed fanfic.
(But…middle child? Middle child?!?)
