Netflix Developing a ‘Pride & Prejudice Series’ Written by Dolly Alderton
Elizabeth Bennet and Mark Darcy may be coming to Netflix.
Deadline has learned that a TV version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice will be produced. Dolly Alderton, creator of Everything I Know About Love, has written the scripts. Casting is yet to be finalized. The project is still in development, and it may never make it to the screen.
If Pride and Prejudice is greenlit by Netflix, it will be the first Austen adaptation to air since Persuasion in 2022, which featured Dakota Johnson.
Many iconic Pride and Prejudice versions have been produced over the years. These include a 2005 movie starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, and a BBC version ten years earlier starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle. Netflix has added the Knightley film to its library.
Pride and Prejudice, a novel by Jane Austen from the early 19th century, is about class and love. Austen wrote the novel in the early nineteenth century. It tells the tale of Elizabeth Bennet, Mark Darcy and their love story, but they have to overcome obstacles because Elizabeth’s father is looking for a male heir.
The novel is often included in best-of lists, and it has inspired many iconic scenes such as Firth’s beloved lake scene from the BBC adaptation.
Novel adaptations of classic literature are very popular at the moment. The BBC announced earlier this week that it will be making a drama out of Janice Hadlow’s The Other Bennet Sister which tells Mary Bennet’s story. Emerald Fennell’s big-budget remake of Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robertbie and Jacob Elordi, is being produced by Emerald Fennell.
Netflix has declined to comment. The Daily Mail reported Pride and Prejudice first.
