Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice Atlanta (2019)

Studio/Network: Lifetime
Director: Rhonda Baraka
Screenplay by: Tracy McMillan

Cast
Lizzie Bennet - Tiffany Hines
Will Darcy - Juan Antonio
Jane Bennet - Raney Branch
Mr. Bingley - Brad James
George Wickham - Phillip Mullings Jr.
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

Studio/Network: Lionsgate
Director: Burt Steers
Screenplay by: Burt Steers

Cast
Elizabeth Bennet - Lily James
Mr. Darcy - Sam Riley
Jane Bennet - Bella Heathcote
Mr. Bingley - Douglas Booth
Mr. Wickham - Jack Huston
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Unleashing Mr. Darcy (2016)

Studio/Network: Hallmark Channel
Director: David Winning
Screenplay by: Tina Booth

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2013)

Find it on YouTube
Director/Creator: Hank Green and Bernie Su
Writers: Margaret Dunlap, Hank Green, Kate Rorick, Bernie Su

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Studio/Network: Focus Features
Director: Joe Wright
Screenplay by: Deborah Moggach
Soundtrack: Available

Bride and Prejudice (2004)

Studio/Network: Miramax Films & Pathe Pictures
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Screenplay by: Paul Mayeda Berges & Gurinder Chadha
Soundtrack: Available

Pride and Prejudice (2003)

Studio/Network: Excel Entertainment Group
Director: Andrew Black
Screenplay by: Anne Black, Jason Faller, & Katherine Swigert
Soundtrack: Available

Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Studio/Network: BBC and A&E
Director: Simon Langton
Screenplay by: Andrew Davies
Soundtrack: Available

Pride and Prejudice (1980)

Studio/Network: BBC
Director: Cyril Coke
Screenplay by: Fay Weldon

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Studio: MGM
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Screenplay by: Aldous Huxley & Jane Murfin

For Your Consideration...

Twilight (2008)

Author Stephenie Meyer, an avowed admirer of Jane Austen, based Twilight on events and characters in Pride and Prejudice. When 17-year-old Bella Swan moves to a new school, she must cope with the rudeness of Edward Cullen, her handsome science lab partner. Edward is rich and intelligent, but his behavior toward Bella is at first cold and silent. He also happens to be a vampire, though his family is “vegetarian”—they do not drink human blood. The story of the couple’s unexpected romance is told with biting wit, as befits the adaptation of a novel in the Austen tradition. 

Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)

Helen Fielding admitted that she wrote the first Bridget Jones novel as an homage to Pride and Prejudice, and when the film was made, who but Colin Firth could be cast as Mark Darcy? He smoldered as well as he had done in the period film, and had a much better haircut, though the end of the movie was changed and is less like Pride and Prejudice than in Fielding’s novel. 

You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Janeite Nora Ephron wrote and directed this film, a remake of The Shop Around the Corner with influences of Pride and Prejudice. Meg Ryan plays Kathleen Kelly, owner of a small children’s bookstore, and Tom Hanks plays Joe Fox, whose family owns a large chain of bookshops that is forcing little stores like Kathleen’s out of business. They meet in an online chatroom and exchange anonymous e-mails; when they encounter one another in real life, not knowing that they are speaking with their e-mail buddy, they clash like another couple that Janeites love, Elizabeth and Darcy. Pride and Prejudice is Kathleen’s favorite novel; it is directly referenced several times in the film, and Joe reads the book (with Colin Firth on the cover!) to try to better understand her. See if you can spot a small homage to the 1980 BBC miniseries near the end of the film.

Wishbone: “Furst Impressions”

Wishbone was a children’s television show broadcast on PBS in the 1990s, featuring a Jack Russell terrier named Wishbone with a very active imagination. When Wishbone’s young owner’s life reflects classic literature, Wishbone takes the lead in acting out the work in question. He plays Mr. Darcy in “Furst Impressions,” the Wishbone adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, and proves that every savage can indeed dance. These shows are currently being rebroadcast on PBS in some markets; as the saying goes, check your local listings!

Further Reading

• Pride and Prejudice in Black and White: Orgoglio e pregiudizio (1957), by Reinier Wels

• Bride and Prejudice: Austen Colonized? A Desi (Insider) Perspective, by Veena P. Kasbekar

• Pride and Prejudice in Black and White: First and Last Impressions (1938–1967), by Reinier Wels
• Pride and Prejudice in Black and White: De vier dochters Bennet (1961–1962), by Reinier Wels
• Lost in Austen: A Postmodern Reanimation of Pride and Prejudice, by Wim Tigges 
• Deciphering Mr. Darcy: Gendered Receptions through Time, by Monica Alvarez.
• Looking for Mr. Darcy: The Role of the Viewer in Creating a Cultural Icon, by Henriette-Juliane Seeliger
• “Will You Dance?”: Film Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, by Nora Stovel
• The Degeneration of Mr. Bingley by Sally B. Palmer
• When Darcy Is a Dog: How Wishbone Introduces Children to Jane Austen by Eleanor Hersey Nickel
• Ideology in The Lizzie Bennet Diaries by Lori Halvorsen Zerne
• Variations on a Theme: Openings, Closings, and Returns in Pride & Prejudice, by Raffaella Antinucci
• The Liberation of Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice, by Susan D. Fraiman
• The Closeness of Sisters: Imagining Cassandra and Jane, by Juliette Wells
• The Jane Austen - Twilight Zone, by Shirley Kinney and Wallis Kinney
• Mr. Collins on Screen: Jane Austen’s Legacy of the Ridiculous, by Mary Chan
• Mrs. Bennet’s Legacy: Austen’s Mothers in Film and Fiction, by June Sturrock
• Lady Bathurst’s Patriotic Ballroom, or “Reading Austen at a Distance”, by Gillian Dow
• Appropriating Austen: Localism on the Global Scene, by Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield
• “It’s not a put-down, Miss Bennet; it’s a category”: Andrew Black’s Chick Lit Pride and Prejudice, by Jennifer Mary Woolston
• Joe Wright’s 2005 film Pride & Prejudice is the subject of a special edition of JASNA’s journal Persuasions On-Line Volume 27, No. 2. The essays provide in-depth discussions of this film adaptation of the novel.
• Bridget Jones and Mark Darcy: Art Imitating Art . . . Imitating Art, by Cecilia Salber
• What Meets the Eye: Landscape in the Films Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, by Sue Parrill
• Austen Novels and Austen Films: Incompatible Worlds?, by Patrice Hannon
• Pride and Prejudice: An Informal History of the Garson-Olivier Motion Picture, by Kenneth Turan
• Interview with Anne Rutherford (Lydia), Marsha Hunt (Mary), and Karen Morley (Charlotte Lucas), by Kenneth Turan