![]() ![]() It also allowed him to explore the French Revolution’s aftershocks in British society 1797 was just a few years after the Reign of Terror, and highborn Brits started thinking it might be a good idea to ingratiate themselves with the masses and defuse any rebellious sentiment. For one thing, it helped separate his version from previous adaptations. But Austen wrote the initial draft, then titled First Impressions, around 1797-and that’s the year in which Wright chose to set his film. Since Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813, following a substantial revision, it’s often considered a quintessential novel of the Regency period (which technically lasted from 1811 to 1820). Pride & Prejudice purposely isn’t set during the Regency period. Instead, he studied other Austen film adaptations, including Sense and Sensibility (1995), Emma (1996), and Mansfield Park (1999), as well as some other period dramas. Once he accepted the job, Wright still refrained from watching the BBC miniseries, just so that he wouldn’t be too influenced by it. "I took the script to the pub and by about page 60, I was weeping into my pint of lager," Wright told The Harvard Crimson. He also didn’t think he’d care much for the story. ![]() In fact, the only adaptation he’d watched was the 1940 movie starring Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson. When production company Working Title Films first offered Wright the director’s chair for Pride & Prejudice-his first feature film-he’d neither read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice nor seen the BBC’s beloved 1995 miniseries based on it. ![]()
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