I know it's been 20 years, and I love the book, but it feels a bit soon for another film of "Emma"

[nineveh_uk]

Though that sentiment is probably in large part because having seen the trailer, I am deeply unconvinced.

"EMMA Trailer (2020)" (Watch on YouTube)

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[castiron]

I'm still waiting for a new Mansfield Park that's reasonably true to the original; the 1983 one is the only decent version I've seen.

[lilliburlero]

God, that looks gruesome. There's that new David Copperfield adaptation too, that looks to be along similarly farcical lines, but Dickens at least gives more of an imprimatur for actual grotesques.

[ironed_orchid]

Meh.

[grondfic]

Actually I'll watch anything that has Johnny Flynn AND Bill Nighy in it.

*Is shallow. Runs and hides*

On Edit

Oh Wow! Rupert Graves AS WELL! I'm in!

[azdak]

Who on earth is Billy Nighy playing? He's too old for Mr Knightley and much too vigorous for Mr Woodhouse, and yet there he is, being wonderful, in a film that manifestly has no business casting him in the first place. And why is Emma played by someone who is deliberately trying to pout vacantly? It's a travesty, that's what it is. It is the Boris Johnson of Austen adaptations.