Sorry for the belated news about the BBC's Emma 2009, but the word is that the series will begin screening in the UK on the 4th of October!
Edit: Google's just informed me that the DVD is available for pre-order on the BBC shop, with the release date of 30th November: pre-order Emma.
And finally ... I haven't seen any new pictures (where are they all?!) but here is the trailer :)
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Cast:
Anne Hathaway - Jane Austen
James McAvoy - Tom Lefroy
Julie Walters - Mrs. Austen
James Cromwell - Revd. George Austen (Jane's father)
Maggie Smith - Lady Gresham
Anna Maxwell Martin - Cassandra Austen
Joe Anderson - Henry Austen
Lucy Cohu - Eliza de Feullide
Laurence Fox - Mr. Wisley
Philip Culhane - George Austen (Jane's brother)
Ian Richardson – Judge Langlois
Leo Bill – John Warren
Jessica Ashworth – Lucy Lefroy
Eleanor Methven – Mrs. Lefroy
Michael James Ford – Mr. Lefroy
Sophie Vavasseur – Jane Lefroy
Helen McCrory – Ann Radcliffe
Julian Jarrold - Director
Graham Broadbent, Robert Bernstein, & Douglas Rae - Producer
Adrian Johnston - Soundtrack
Kevin Hood & Sarah Williams - Screenplay writers
Eigil Bryld - Cinematography
Jane Gibson - Choreography
Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh - Costume
Gail Stevens & Gillian Reynolds - Casting
Jon Spence,
McAvoy knew his portrait of Tom could only come alive with the right Jane, and he found Anne Hathaway almost supernaturally suited for the part. “I don’t think we could have chosen anyone better to play Jane Austen," he says.
Jane Austen’s greatest love story was her own
‘I’m yours, Jane, heart and soul!’
~ Tom Lefroy to Jane Austen, ‘Becoming Jane’
Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection – JA,
Nothing can be compared to the misery of being bound without Love, bound to one, & preferring another – JA,
To be so bent on marriage, to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation – is a sort of thing that shocks me.
The film Becoming Jane has given us an image of Jane Austen that liberates our imagination. I envy readers of my book who come to it with Anne Hathaway’s image of Jane in their mind’s eye. You will not have to struggle against the image Cassandra created to see the Jane Austen who was young and pretty, lively and in love. Anne Hathaway’s skilful portrayal of Jane Austen in Becoming Jane shows that art can have as much power to bring us closer to the truth as facts themselves can.
Jon Spence,
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6 comments:
Welcome back Michelle! And thanks a lot for the two wonderful posts. I am very much looking forward to the new Emma, Romola Garai looks so cute there!
Oh, I do think that the new Knightley is cute (ahh... Edmund!), but I still wish Richard Armitage would... sigh...
ah yes Armitage would suit the part much better. Better agewise too. So new and old Edmund meet in this! ;) I'm really looking forward to it. A full series of Emma. :)
When I see posts like this i realise how lucky I am to be in the UK! Not wanting to rub it in...!
Yeah Sista! Rub it in, rub it in... :-P
At least I still have Amazon to order it from... oh, and YouTube!
yeah amazon is da shit! and youtube... how else would we non-brits survive?
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