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“Persuasion,” from first-time feature film director Carrie Cracknell.Starring Dakota Johnson as Austen heroine Anne Elliott and Cosmo Jarvis as the love of her youth, Frederick Wentworth, the movie stays fairly true to the basic plot of Austen’s beloved final novel, but updates it by having protagonist Anne speak directly to camera. As Anne learns the man whose heart she broke is returning, now a much more socially suitable war-celebrated ship captain, the audience becomes who she turns to as she expresses her internal monologue of feelings, or even for sassy observations about her overly-dramatic younger sister.“I think the use of the breaking of the fourth wall was something that we tried to be very kind of thoughtful and considered about,” Cracknell, a multi-award-nominated theater director, told TheWrap.

EXCLUSIVE: MRC Film has named its romance label, led by Elizabeth Cantillon, Bisous Pictures—also announcing the appointment of Sydney Fleischmann as VP, Development and Production.

With recent acclaimed roles in “The Lost Daughter” and “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” Dakota Johnson is fast becoming one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actresses. And her 2022 isn’t over yet, as she stars in Carrie Cracknell’s Jane Austen adaptation “Persuasion,” out on Netflix on July 15.

When thinking of high society and complicated romance in art, one of the first names to come to mind is Jane Austen. Just about since cinema has been around, her work is the subject of adaptation time and time again.

A Jane Austen classic is coming to life.

Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) has signed on for a role in the drama Downtown Owl, from Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films, Deadline can confirmed. He’s set to star alongside previously announced cast members including Ed Harris, Vanessa Hudgens, Finn Wittrock, Jack Dylan Grazer, August Blanco Rosenstein and Lily Rabe.

Dakota Johnson is headed to the Spider-Verse!The actress is set to to become the first female-headlining hero in the Sony-Marvel cinematic universe, as multipleoutlets report she is in talks to play the titular character in the upcoming. S.J.

The Lost Daughter, alongside Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson has teamed up with another powerhouse female director, Carrie Cracknell, to adapt Jane Austen’s Persuasion for . A highly respected name in British theater, Cracknell has helmed productions at both the Royal Court and the Young Vic, and recently directed in Sea Wall/A Life on Broadway.

50 Shades fame actress Dakota Johnson will reportedly be starring in streaming giant Netflix‘s new movie, Persuasion, which is an adaptation of Jane Austen’s famed novel. Broadway director, Carrie Cracknell, will be making her feature film debut for the project, Variety also reports.

hell yes.British theater director Carrie Cracknell will helm the picture, with Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow manning the screenplay, which is modern take on Jane Austen's final completed novel (published after the author's death), Persuasion. The article describes the story as that of “Anne Elliot, a headstrong woman living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy.

Dakota Johnson has signed on to star in Persuasion, Netflix and MRC Entertainment’s modern take on the Jane Austen novel. Theater director Carrie Cracknell, who directed Jake Gyllenhall and Tom Sturridge to Tony nominations last year in Sea Wall/ A Life on Broadway, will make her feature helming debut with the project.

Dakota Johnson is set to star in Netflix‘s new movie, Persuasion, which is an adaptation of Jane Austen’s famed novel.

Jane Austen film and TV adaptations are plentiful. I mean, how many times have we seen projects like “Sense and Sensibility,” “Pride and Prejudice,” and “Emma” brought to life on screen? But even though we’ve seen these stories done a number of times before, it doesn’t mean that new versions can’t be made that pique our interest, such as a new version of “Persuasion” that is being developed at Netflix.

Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson will star in Netflix and MRC Film’s modern retelling of Jane Austin’s Persuasion. 

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterDakota Johnson is set to star in Netflix’s retelling of Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion.”Carrie Cracknell, known for directing Jake Gyllenhaal in “Sea Wall/ A Life” on Broadway, is stepping behind the camera in her feature directorial debut.

friends to secrecy” as she underwent treatment, her friend Carrie Cracknell has revealed. Cracknell, who directed McCrory in a 2014 production of Medea, said the performer did not want her illness overshadowing her family and professional life.

Helen McCrory “swore friends to secrecy” as she underwent gruelling treatment for cancer. The Peaky Blinders actress told “very, very few people” about her diagnosis and carried on with her charity work just a few weeks before her death aged 52.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticAudiences moved to tears – actually, moved to sobs – were commonplace throughout last year’s nine-week Broadway run of Sea Wall/A Life, the pair of solo one-act plays starring, respectively, Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal.