![]() ![]() ![]() Years after declining a proposal from the naval officer Frederick Wentworth, she is forced to reckon with her choices amidst her family’s own financial downfall. Released posthumously in 1818, Austen’s last work tells the story of Anne Elliot, a strong-willed woman who commits the mortal sin of being (gasp!) an unmarried 27-year-old. Snook’s project, to be directed by Mahalia Belo for Searchlight, was confirmed back in September. News of Johnson’s film, which will be helmed by Carrie Cracknell and premiere on Netflix, was announced on Tuesday. ![]() In an Austenian twist of fate, Dakota Johnson and Succession’s Sarah Snook will each play an unmatchable spinster in separate adaptations of Persuasion, Jane Austen’s final novel. File this one under unlikely casting scenarios. ![]()
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