The fourth-wall conceit could have - and should have - worked if Johnson’s Anne remained the plain, shy wallflower Austen wrote in the first place, not someone liable to upend a gravy boat over her own head. Elliot is a gem who deserves to be airlifted out of this film and recast in a real Austen adaptation, where he can flourish. The diverse world part works - Henry Golding as evil Mr. In keeping with prevailing trends, Netflix is aiming for a modernist period piece, swiping liberally from “Dickinson,” “The Great” and others with diverse casting, modern slang and fourth-wall breaking. As a result, this new movie feels as if it had been written by someone who had never cracked a Jane Austen novel, just watched a few trailers for “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma,” opened Wikipedia for a plot summary and went from there. Perhaps the production did not think Anne Elliot as written would connect with 21st-century audiences.

One cannot imagine this Anne Elliot ever being pushed around, let alone abused as the family’s de facto servant. She’s loud, feisty, flirty and as unlikable as the rest of her godawful family. She’s an anti-heroine in empire waist clothing. Meanwhile, Snook’s potentially more traditional take is written by Jessica Swale and has already found its Captain Wentworth in Game of Thrones alum Joel Fry.Netflix’s Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson, woefully miscast) is none of these things. Johnson’s, written by Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow, is being billed as a “modern, witty approach” to the classic tale, per Variety. No release dates for the competing Persuasion movies have been reported, but each is likely racing toward a finish line. Years after declining a proposal from the naval officer Frederick Wentworth, she is forced to reckon with her choices amidst her family’s own financial downfall. Released posthumously in 1818, Austen’s last work tells the story of Anne Elliot, a strong-willed woman who commits the mortal sin of being (gasp!) an unmarried 27-year-old.

Snook’s project, to be directed by Mahalia Belo for Searchlight, was confirmed back in September. RELATED: First ‘Persuasion’ Images Show Dakota Johnson, Henry Golding, and Cosmo Jarvis in Netflix’s Jane Austen Adaptation Deadline broke the casting news, describing Daddio as a 'contained. News of Johnson’s film, which will be helmed by Carrie Cracknell and premiere on Netflix, was announced on Tuesday. In an Austenian twist of fate, Dakota Johnson and Succession’s Sarah Snook will each play an unmatchable spinster in separate adaptations of Persuasion, Jane Austen’s final novel. File this one under unlikely casting scenarios.

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