Georgia Oakley is directing a film based on Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility. The film, which has a screenplay by Diana Reid, is set to star Daisy Edgar-Jones of Normal People, Where the Crawdads Sing and Twisters fame. The novel explores the romantic relationships of siblings Marianne and Elinor in the Dashwood family. Edgar-Jones is set to portray Elinor. Working Title Films' Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing the film, alongside Jo Wallett and November Pictures' India Flint. The film reunites Working Title Films with distributor Focus Features after their collaboration on 2005's Pride and Prejudice adaptation and 2020's Emma, both based on Austen's novels.
Sense and Sensibility has been the subject of multiple films, including an eponymous 1995 feature, starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, and Hugh Grant, and 2000's Kandukondain Kandukondain, starring Aishwarya Rai, Tabu, Mammootty, and Ajith Kumar. The upcoming project starring Edgar-Jones is set to offer a fresh iteration of the classic novel from the 18th century.
Edgar-Jones was last seen in On Swift Horses, also starring Will Poulter and Jacob Elordi. Her upcoming projects also include filmmaker Chloe Domont's thriller A Place in Hell, co-starring Michelle Williams and Andrew Scott. On the other hand, Oakley's most popular work is her critically acclaimed directorial debut Blue Jean, starring Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes, and Lydia Page, among others.