Thoughtful and romantic

Georgeia Oakley is the director of a new interpretation of Jane Austen's Thoughtful and Romantic. Working Title is based on a script by Diana Reid and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles, Caitríona Balfe, Frank Dillane, Herbert Nordrum, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, George MacKay and Fiona Shaw.

Set in Georgian-era England, the film follows the fortunes of a wealthy Mr. Dashwood who dies, leaving his second wife and three daughters in dire financial straits. The women move to a modest country estate, where two older sisters compete for the favor of various admirers in search of true love.

Produced by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title, India Flint of November Pictures and Jo Wallett of Kiddo Films. Working Title and Focus previously collaborated on the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, which garnered four Oscar nominations, and on the 2020 film version of the Emmy.

The thoughtful and romantic hit the screens also in 1995 from the Sony Pictures Classics studio — a film directed by Anga Lee, with a screenplay by Emma Thompson, who won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Thompson also played Elinor Dashwood and Kate Winslet portrayed Marianne. The production received a total of seven Oscar nominations and earned more than $134 million worldwide.