Persuasion, Netflix’s new period drama reveals its first look and confirms release date

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With Bridgerton’s runaway success, it’s no surprise that Netflix is ​​already working on its new period hit. Although the platform has a large number of productions of this type in its catalog, the streaming giant continues with its strategy of creating more original content.

Some time ago it was known that Netflix was working on a new adaptation of Persuasion (Persuasion), Jane Auten’s posthumous novel published in 1818. The author of Pride and Prejudice began writing the novel shortly after Emma (finished in 1816), without However, Austen died the following year due to an illness that had plagued her for a long time.

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Persuasion follows the story of Anne Elliot, a mature, sensitive and underappreciated woman who, years after rejecting the man she loved due to bad advice, reappears in her life, rich and honorable, but still jilted. Faced with a new opportunity, the heroine of this story must fight for love to grant her a second chance.

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Now the platform revealed new images of the adaptation, which features Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis and Henry Golding as protagonists. In the photos you can see Johnson as Anne Elliot, Jarvis as Frederick Wentworth, and Golding in the role of Mr. Elliot.

Johnson como Anne Elliot

Mr. Elliot y Frederick Wentworth

The rest of the cast features performances by Suki Waterhouse, Richard E. Grant, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ben Bailey Smith, Izuka Hoyle, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Nia Towle, Edward Bluemel, Lydia Rose Bewley, and Yolanda Kettle.

Persuasion is directed by Carrie Cracknell from a screenplay by Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow. It premieres on July 15 on Netflix.

This is not the first adaptation of Jane Austen’s acclaimed novel. The work has been brought to the screen six times, most of the time on the small screen. The most prominent are the 1995, which was a television movie starring Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds. One of the most recent was made in 2007, with Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones as protagonists.

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