As previously reported, Daisy Edgar-Jones will lead as Elinor Dashwood, with Esme Creed-Miles playing Marianne Dashwood. “Blue Jean” filmmaker Georgia Oakley will direct from a script by bestselling author Diana Reid. The feature has started filming in the United Kingdom.

Focus Features’ “Sense and Sensibility” has rounded out its cast with George MacKay, Caitríona Balfe, Fiona Shaw and more joining Daisy Edgar-Jones in the Jane Austen adaptation. Alongside Edgar-Jones and Esme Creed-Miles as sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood,

Britain’s famed romance novelist, Jane Austen – and the film and TV industry have responded in a bit of a frenzy. The BBC beat the flurry with a new costume drama Miss Austen in February, before revealing it was also working on