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Jane Austen's novel Emma will be brought to the screen three times and Anya Taylor-Joy plays the heroine

Jane Austen's novel Emma will be brought to the screen three times and Anya Taylor-Joy plays the heroine

Beijing News Express (reporter Teng Chao) on October 25, US time, according to foreign media reports, 22-year-old American actress Anya Taylor-Joy, who has starred in the movie "X-Men: New Mutants" and "Split", will star in the film of the same name based on Jane Austen's novel "Emma", which will be the third time the story has been put on the big screen. The film will be directed by MV director Autumn de Wilde, and the screenplay will be written by New Zealand writer Eleanor Caton, who won the Booker Prize for her novel Luminous Body. The film's producer was also identified as Three Billboards producer Graham Broadbent. As for the specific release time of the film, it is not clear.

The novel "Emma" has been adapted into film and television works many times, and in addition to the two miniseries, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Beckinsale played the role of "Emma" in the film adaptation of the same name in 1996. The film tells the story of emma, a beautiful, intelligent and wealthy girl, who is quite conceited, loves to meddle in the feelings of others, acts as a red bride to mess with the mandarin duck, and when she arranges objects for another girl, Harriet, she falls in love with Mr. Knightley, an older gentleman than her.

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