Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Lost in Austen

2/13/09 - Columbia Pictures is adapting Lost in Austen, a British time-traveling TV miniseries about a modern-day woman who finds herself living the life of a fictional heroine, for the big screen, Variety reported. Sam Mendes is a producer.  The film will center on Amanda, an ardent Jane Austen fan, who lives in present-day New York with her boyfriend, until she finds she's swapped places with Austen's fictional creation Elizabeth Bennett.  The show's original writer, Guy Andrews, is writing the screenplay.

AlienAlmanac.com 2009