Extremely popular, this literary work will be entitled to a new adaptation on Netflix. But fans are worried even before seeing the first images.
Literature greatly inspires production companies, which do not hesitate to offer new cinematographic or serial adaptations of works that have marked generations of readers. The proof once again with the new project from Netflix. The streaming platform is planning a series about one of the biggest hits in English literature which, two hundred years after its publication, still enjoys immense popularity.
Netflix is in fact preparing a new adaptation ofPride and prejudiceeven if it has not yet received the official green light. This novel by Jane Austen published in 1813 is considered one of the greatest works of English literature. Under the guise of recounting the thwarted romance between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, the novel critiques English society of the time with biting and humor. American media Variety specifies that the author Dolly Alderton would be writing the screenplay, before it is validated or not by Netflix.
However, fans are already very cautious about this project. First of all, because Jane Austen’s classic has already been adapted numerous times for television and cinema. The most popular versions remain the Joe Wright film released in 2005, with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen in the lead roles, and the 1995 BBC series, which revealed Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth to the general public.
“The version ofPride and prejudice with Keira Knightley and Matthew Mcfadyen is perfect”, writes one user of
Above all, the streaming platform put a new version of Persuasionone of the author’s most melancholy novels, with Dakota Johnson. But Netflix had taken a lot of liberties with the original work, seeking to modernize it at the risk of distorting the essence and emotion of the novel. Unsurprisingly, this did not please readers of the novel. “I no longer trust Netflix to adapt literary classics since Persuasion“, writes another. The streaming platform must now convince the most demanding audience: fans of the original work.