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."