I Can't Wait For...Austenland

If you are an avid Jane Austen/Pride and Prejudice fan like myself, and love to read any kind of sequel to the book you can get your hands on then this movie is definitely for you. I read Austenland a couple years ago and loved it. I just found out there is also a sequel to the book, which I'll now have to read too! I'm so glad to hear they are now making the book into a movie. The movie stars Keri Russell (Felicity), JJ Field (Captain America: The First Avenger, Northanger Abbey), Jennifer Coolidge (Legally Blonde, American Pie), and Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, Wedding Crashers). The author, Shannon Hale, is actually really good friends with Twilight author Stephanie Meyer, who is also producing this movie (don't freak out people, she's just producing, not directing - plus I liked her books, it was the movies that messed them all up).

In the book, Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man—perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (I myself prefer the 2005 Keira Knightly/Matthew Macfadyen version, but to each their own). When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women, however, Jane’s fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Is this total immersion in a fake Austenland enough to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own?

There has been no set date for a theatrical release of the film, only that it is supposed to hit theaters in 2012. 

You can read a great article about the movie here from Screen Daily.