Hold onto your bonnets — Netflix has given us a first look at Emma Corrin‘s Elizabeth Bennet and Jack Lowden‘s Mr. Darcy in their upcoming Pride and Prejudice series.
The six-part adaptation will air in the fall, the streaming platform confirmed.
The teaser trailer shows Corrin as Jane Austen’s beloved protagonist sitting atop her house in the early 19th century, and glimpses of the brooding Darcy from behind a doorway and riding his horse. Corrin, who uses they/them pronouns, is best known for their stint as Princess Diana on The Crown and most recently starred in Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. Lowden, meanwhile, will be a familiar face to Slow Horses fans. Olivia Colman, Rufus Sewell, Freya Mavor, Jamie Demetriou, Daryl McCormack, Louis Partridge, Rhea Norwood, Siena Kelly, Fiona Shaw, Hopey Parish and Hollie Avery will co-star in Pride and Prejudice.
In a year rife with regency drama for loyal fans, the series will “join the yearn-aissance in the autumn to faithfully bring Jane Austen’s iconic story back to life for audiences that cherish it, whilst inspiring a new generation to fall in love with it for the first time,” said Netflix.
Everything I Know About Love author and writer-executive producer on the show Dolly Alderton added: “Once in a generation, a group of people get to retell this wonderful story and I feel very lucky that I get to be a part of it. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is the blueprint for romantic comedy — it has been a joy to delve back into its pages to find both familiar and fresh ways of bringing this beloved book to life.”
“With Euros Lyn directing our stellar cast,” Alderton added, “I am so excited to reintroduce these hilarious and complicated characters to those who count Pride and Prejudice as their favourite book, and those who are yet to meet their Lizzie and Mr Darcy.”
Eagle-eyed fans in the U.K. took to social media last week as they spotted the teaser playing on the big screen ahead of watching Wuthering Heights.
Watch the first teaser for Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice below.