Miramax Films To Make 'Becoming Jane'
[Wednesday, March 1st, 2006]Miramax Films has picked up rights to Becoming Jane, in which Anne Hathaway stars as Brit novelist Jane Austen, according to Variety.
Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots) is directing with James McAvoy, Maggie Smith and Julie Walters also starring.
"Becoming" centers on a love affair Austen began as a 20-year-old -- with brilliant, roguish Irishman Tom Lefroy -- that inspired her career as one of the world's great romantic scribes. Movie also looks at how the writer's relationship with Lefroy helped create the male characters in "Pride & Prejudice."
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