Pity the poor Austen blogger. The minute you write, “No fewer than three Austenian adaptations may be making their way to our TV screens,” word comes of a fourth new project in the pipeline--although this one isn’t exactly new.
Back in 2020, HBO was said to be planning a small-screen version of Ibi Zoboi’s 2018 young-adult novel Pride, which sets Pride and Prejudice among Black and immigrant families in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood.
That adaptation never materialized, but now it’s been revived for Netflix, with the help of backers who could hardly be more prestigious: Barack and Michelle Obama, via their production company, Higher Ground. Karen Joseph Adcock, a writer and co-producer of the hit FX series The Bear, is writing the screenplay.
For those of you keeping score at home, this is indeed the second P&P-related adaptation from Netflix that we’ve heard about this month: The network is also said to be considering a straight-up version of the novel, with a screenplay by British writer Dolly Alderton. (We will pass over without comment Netflix’s role in bringing us the famously terrible Dakota Johnson Persuasion.)
I thoroughly enjoyed Pride, which is atmospheric and beautifully written, so I’m on board with this addition to the Austen-adaptation slate. The fourth addition! Count ‘em! Four!
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