Project Detail

Sanditon

Synopsis

When Charlotte Heywood is invited by eternal optimist and entrepreneur Tom Parker to spend the summer season at Sanditon she accepts immediately, intrigued to see (not so) polite society at play in the newly fashionable sea bathing resort.
There she meets a host of classic Austen characters from the imperious nouveau-riche Lady Denham to her impoverished ward Clara, and from the lecherous Sir Edward, to the dashing, feckless Sidney Parker and his hypochondriac sisters.
Adaptation of Jane Austen's final novel.

Details

Year: 2017
Type of project: Features
Director: Jim O’Hanlon
Producer: Simon Reade, Guy de Beaujeu
Executive Producer: Pascal Degove, Nick Quested
Screenwriter: Simon Reade (script), Marie Dobbs (additional material), Jane Austen (novel)
Principal cast: Charlotte Rampling, Holliday Grainger, Max Irons

Genre

Comedy Drama

Production Status

Pre-production

Production Company

Fluidity Films Ltd

3 Etsome Hill Cottages
Somerton
Somerset
TA11 6JD

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Sales Company

Goldcrest Films International

1 Lexington Street
London
W1F 9AF

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