It's safe to say that the films of Nora Ephron mostly don't speak to a guy like me. I love a good romance, but the pillowy fluff of a Sleepless in Seattle or You've Got Mail sends me scrambling for the exits. Everyone once in awhile she hits the nail on the head, like with When Harry Met Sally, and even Julie and Julia had it's high points. Enough that the Julia Child biopic had some pretty long legs at the box office back in 2009, earning north of $120M. Not too shabby.
Those jonesing for slightly different spin on Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, and realizing they won't get it from the cursed Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, may dig Ephron's next project. Titled Lost in Austen, it's an adaptation of a 2008 British TV series involving a modern London woman who steps through a magic doorway and switches places with Austen's famous heroine, Elizabeth Bennet. The original starred Alex Kingston, Gemma Arterton, and Hugh Bonneville.The woman falls hard for Mr. Darcy, while simultaneously trying to keep the events of the novel in place.
In Ephron's version,which she'll both write and direct, the woman will me a New Yorker rather than Londoner. Sam Mendes(Away We Go) will be producing. [Variety]
