^ 'Carrie Cracknell's Adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion Starring Dakota Johnson Release Date Announced'.

Variety 's Peter Debruge found Carrie Cracknell to have 'gone and done a strange thing with the book', by trying to 'modernize it, borrowing heavily from Fleabag with its fourth-wall-breaking gimmicks', while 'casting a free-spirited, fully liberated American star, Dakota Johnson, as Anne - all of which strips the novel of its core tension.' Christy Lemire from the Roger Ebert website found Dakota Johnson offering in the film 'a taste of her under-appreciated comic timing', though she claims 'it's impossible to care about whether Anne ends up with Frederick Wentworth because, as played by Cosmo Jarvis, he is so stiff and uncharismatic.' The Guardian's Stuart Heritage wrote that the 'attempt to modernize the classic novel has led to a disaster of anachronistic dialogue and annoyingly wry glances at the camera,' while Vox critic Constance Grady found the film an 'absolute disaster.' The Spectator went so far as to proclaim in its review that 'everyone involved should be in prison.' References The website's consensus reads, 'Despite Dakota Johnson's best efforts, the chaotically anachronistic Persuasion fails to convince as a worthwhile Austen adaptation.' On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 42 out of 100 based on 37 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 30% of 128 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5/10. In June 2021, Edward Bluemel, Lydia Rose Bewley, and Yolanda Kettle joined the cast of the film. Grant, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ben Bailey Smith, Izuka Hoyle, Mia McKenna-Bruce, and Nia Towle joined the cast of the film. In May 2021, Henry Golding, Cosmo Jarvis, Suki Waterhouse, Richard E. In April 2021, it was announced Dakota Johnson had joined the cast of the film, with Carrie Cracknell directing from a screenplay by Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow, based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen, with Netflix set to distribute.

Cosmo Jarvis as Captain Frederick Wentworth.

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