Also Read: Luca Guadagnino to Direct Film About Scotty Bowers, Legendary Sex Procurer to the StarsWriter/director Jessica Swale, (“Summerland”) is penning the screenplay adaptation of the Jane Austen book that was first published in 1818, a year after Austen died.Producers Alison Own and Debra Hayward (“Sufragette,” “How to Build a Girl”), are producing the project via their Monumental Pictures banner.