Pride & Prejudice series casts Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden

Let us take a turn about the room; some pleasurable news have come from Netflixshire.

Netflix’s limited series adaptation of Pride & Prejudice has found its Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy: Emma Corrin (The Crown, Nosferatu) and Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Mary Queen of Scots) will play the love interests. But that’s not all! Alert Mr. Bennet, for Corrin shall be vexing Olivia Colman (The Crown, The Favourite), who has also joined the adaptation as Mrs. Bennet.

No other casting details for Mr. Bennet and his other four daughters have been shared just yet, but the forthcoming adaptation will be written for television by best-selling author Dolly Alderton and directed by Heartstopper and Doctor Who‘s Euros Lyn.

Set to comprise of six episodes, it has been billed as a faithful adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved 19th-century England romance novel.

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Corrin, who is nonbinary, will also executive produce the series. They called the role a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

“To be able to bring this iconic character to life alongside Olivia and Jack, with Dolly’s phenomenal scripts, is truly the greatest honor,” Corrin told Netflix’s Tudum, “ I can’t wait for a new generation to fall in love with this story all over again.”

“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,” Alderton added in her own statement. “With Euros Lyn directing our stellar cast, I am so excited to reintroduce these hilarious and complicated characters to those who count Pride and Prejudice as their favorite book, and those who are yet to meet their Lizzie and Mr Darcy.”

Austen’s novel, published in 1813, has bewitched many studio executives body and soul in the last decades, having inspired dozens of television and film adaptations.

Some of the most memorable ones include the 1995 miniseries starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle and the 2005 film adaptation starring Keira Knightley and a pre-Succession Matthew Macfadyen. Those adaptations starred Alison Steadman and Brenda Blethyn, respectively, as Mrs. Bennet.