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I guess you can only tell the same story over and over again so many times before you start looking for ways to make it \u201cnew\u201d again.<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent years, Pride and Prejudice<\/i> has been adapted as a BBC mini-series with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth and as a big-screen movie<\/a> with Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen, and it has also been honoured and spoofed and recontextualized in everything from Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary<\/i> (2001) to Bride and Prejudice<\/a><\/i> (2004).<\/p>\n

Now get ready for the time-travel and space-monster versions.<\/p>\n

Lost in Austen<\/a><\/i> is a mini-series that aired on the ITV network<\/a> in Britain last year, before coming to the United States in January; it stars Jemima Rooper as a modern woman who trades places with P&P;<\/i> heroine Elizabeth Bennet after the two of them discover a portal between Rooper\u2019s apartment and the world of P&P;<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that Columbia Pictures is now planning to turn this mini-series into a feature film, with Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty<\/i>, Revolutionary Road<\/i>) serving as a producer.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Variety<\/i> also reports<\/a> that Elton John, of all people, is producing Pride and Predator<\/i>, \u201cwhich veers from the traditional period costume drama when an alien crash lands and begins to butcher the mannered protags, who suddenly have more than marriage and inheritance to worry about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Personally, I\u2019m all in favour of period-piece alien-invasion movies; there\u2019s no reason extra-terrestrials always have to meet us in the present day or in some far-off imaginary future. Even so\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"