The latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s last completed novel “Persuasion” is scheduled to premiere tomorrow, July 15, 2022 on Netflix. A fresh, witty take on one of the most popular Austen’s works is directed by Carrie Cracknell from a screenplay by Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow.
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The cast includes Dakota Johnson as Anne Elliot, Cosmo Jarvis as Captain Frederick Wentworth, Henry Golding as Mr. William Elliot, Richard E. Grant as Sir Walter Elliot, Nikki Amuka-Bird as Lady Russell, Izuka Hoyle as Henrietta Musgrove, Mia McKenna-Bruce as Mary Elliot, Nia Towle as Louisa Musgrove, Edward Bluemel, Lydia Rose Bewley, Yolanda Kettle, Suki Waterhouse, Ben Bailey, and more.
Eight years after Anne Elliot was persuaded not to marry a dashing man of humble origins, they meet again. Will she seize her second chance at true love?
– from Netflix.
The story follows Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of twenty-seven years. After her broken engagement of to Frederick Wentworth, the pair meet again, after no contact in more than seven years.
While waiting for tomorrow’s release, watch the official trailer below:
