The long-awaited Longbourn?
Last month brought the sad news that an eagerly awaited Austen adaptation – the Searchlight Pictures version of Persuasion, starring Sarah Snook – wouldn’t make it to the big screen after all. As if to compensate disappointed Janeites, however, now there are signs that another long-gestating Austen-adjacent movie may be on its way to us. Movie rumors materialized almost as soon as Jo Baker published her 2013 book Longbourn, a novel about the lives of the Bennet family’s serva