Fans beg Netflix to ‘stay away’ from new Pride and Prejudice series for this reason

After quality that Netflix is successful the aboriginal stages of a caller Pride and Prejudice adaptation, fans are imploring the streaming work to permission the beloved Jane Austen caller alone.

According to Deadline, Netflix has brought connected committee Everything I Know About Love creator Dolly Alderton to constitute the amusement – pursuing successful the footsteps of the deed 1995 BBC bid starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle arsenic Darcy and Elizabeth.

The play play besides enjoyed a hugely palmy movie adaptation (featuring Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen arsenic the romanticist leads) successful 2005.

In Netflix’s version, the Daily Mail has reported that Normal People prima Daisy Edgar-Jones could prima arsenic the literate heroine (with nary authoritative confirmation from Netflix connected the bid oregon imaginable casting)

What’s more, the quality of this caller instrumentality connected the 19th-century emotion communicative comes conscionable days aft the BBC confirmed they would beryllium producing a caller series, The Other Bennet Sister, focused connected the overlooked Mary Bennett.

This would people Netflix’s archetypal Austen remake since Dakota Johnson’s Persuasion successful 2022 which crashed retired with a disappointing 30% connected Rotten Tomatoes for its quirky modern dialog wrong the accepted play setting.

Unfortunately, Persuasion has near a atrocious sensation successful galore people’s mouths.

The bid improvement besides comes conscionable weeks aft Netflix endured backlash aft manufacture rumours that the streamer was besides processing a Picture of Dorian Grey adaptation that would reimagine Oscar Wilde’s Dorian and Basil arsenic siblings.

All this to say, fans person already expressed their dismay astatine the imaginable caller series.

‘I don’t spot this aft what they did to Persuasion,’ @folkausten wrote connected X.

‘NETFLIX STAY AWAY FROM PERIOD DRAMAS,’ @myghostr echoed. And @rnostardently simply added: ‘undevelop it’.

‘Go ticker BBC’s mentation of persuasion and you volition awe of this emotion story. And past ticker Netflix’s version, you volition beryllium aggravated astatine however they butchered it. Don’t spot Netflix making pridefulness and prejudice,’ @hello_lilgel6 slammed.

‘Tbh Netflix ruining each lit masterpiece from Persuasion to representation of dorian grey and present Pride and Prejudice? I’ll not basal it,’ @viwalavida_ shared.

‘Netflix, ISTG if you ruin Pride and Prejudice for us, I’ll beryllium sending bearer pigeons with aggravated notes,’ @inshanomani added.

Despite instrumentality scepticism, Netflix has already proven its quality to accommodate Regency-era novels aft the immense occurrence of its ongoing Bridgerton series.

The show, based connected the best-selling caller bid by Julia Quinn, has raked successful millions of viewers implicit 3 seasons.

The fashionable bid is acceptable to bring successful adjacent much for its adjacent play focused connected Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thomspon) and Sophie Baek’s (Yerin Ha) emotion story.

This imaginable caller Pride and Prejudice TV bid is not the lone play play adaptation to acquisition retaliation from fans successful caller weeks.

In September, Saltburn manager Emerald Fennell shocked fans after confirming a Wuthering Heights movie was successful the works – with Hollywood A-listers Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi rumoured to beryllium playing Catherine and Heathcliffe.

Bronte fans cited their disappointment astatine the thought of Heathcliffe not being played by a idiosyncratic of colour, contempt his statement successful the book.

More generally, others called retired the absurdity of 2 picture-perfect stars assuming the relation of these rough-around-the-edges characters.

The Metro has reached retired to Netflix for comment.

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