Working Title needed a hit, and it looks like they got it! PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is No. 1 in the U.K. box office for the third week.
ETA: Reuters (via Yahoo) has some numbers…£1.47 million last weekend.
An article about the BBC’s upcoming adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House mentions the adapter, Andrew Davies, who also adapted P&P2, Emma3 and an unproduced screenplay of NA, and contained a very interesting tidbit about his upcoming projects:
Although Davies is no stranger to period drama - his previous adaptations include George Eliot’s Middlemarch, William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now and he is planning a new serialisation of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility - this is the first time he has attempted Dickens.
Considering the inability to get the NA screenplay produced (though this NA fan is not in a big rush for it anyway, as we found the screenplay rather milquetoast to say the least) and BrontëBlog’s report of the recent cancellation of a BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford, we caution readers to not get too excited about this. (And we are still peeved that we won’t get to see Dame Judi as Miss Matty!)
ETA: Confirmation from the Beeb.
Speaking at the launch of BBC One’s new adaptation Bleak House, Davies said his adaptation of Sense and Sensibility was in its early stages and no actors had been cast.
He rejected the idea that Austen had been overexposed in the last decade after Pride and Prejudice sparked a craze for Austen dramas.
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A BBC spokeswoman confirmed Sense and Sensibility was “in the early stages of development” and would be Davies’ next project for BBC One.
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