The hand flex seen ’around the world can now be considered on the massive display screen as soon as extra…
Sure, the enduring 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Delight & Prejudice” is returning to theaters for its twentieth anniversary. Focus Options is re-releasing “Delight & Prejudice” beginning April 20, with the particular theatrical occasion going down each on April 20 and April 23 nationwide. There additionally can be restricted version merchandise to additional immortalize the beloved movie.
Joe Wright directs the four-time Academy Award nominated function that stars Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet, who instantly loathes the icy Mr. Darcy (Mathew Macfadyen). Nevertheless, as their lives grow to be intertwined, she finds herself captivated by the very particular person she swore to despise for all eternity.
Carey Mulligan made her movie debut with “Delight & Prejudice,” which co-stars Rosamund Pike (with whom Mulligan later reunited for “Saltburn”), Judi Dench, Donald Sutherland, and Brenda Blethyn.
Along with the theatrical re-release, Focus can be partnering with Decca Information for the long-awaited vinyl launch of the Academy Award-nominated “Delight & Prejudice” soundtrack, composed by Dario Marianelli and carried out by Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Will probably be launched later this spring in a number of codecs.
Co-lead star Macfadyen beforehand stated that being acknowledged as Darcy by followers is “in all probability essentially the most flattering factor that occurs” to him. There additionally, after all, is the viral TikTok pattern of sharing the rain-soaked scene the place Darcy professes his love for Knightley’s Elizabeth.
“It’s 20 years later, so I believe I can’t be getting older that badly,” “Succession” Emmy winner Macfadyen stated in 2024.
He additionally admitted to Self-importance Truthful that he felt a “self-imposed strain” of precisely portraying the character Darcy. “I did really feel strain — possibly it was a self-imposed strain of, you recognize: ‘This can be a massive movie, don’t get it fallacious,’” he stated, later including, “I kind of ended up [being offered] a variety of issues which might be just like ‘Delight & Prejudice.’ And I assumed: I mustn’t do this, I ought to attempt to do one thing totally different.”
And Macfadyen’s take even acquired essentially the most beloved earlier Darcy’s stamp of approval: Colin Firth, who performed Mr. Darcy within the 1995 BBC miniseries, stated that it was Macfadyen’s efficiency that made him “lastly” perceive the character. “I needed to write a fan letter,” Firth stated. “Positively my favourite Darcy.”
Try the “Delight & Prejudice” twentieth anniversary trailer beneath.