There’s a spot of bother brewing between fledgling Brit director Joe Wright - whose movie version of “Pride and Prejudice” opens tomorrow - and members of the Jane Austen Society of North America.I’m told that in a National Public Radio report, also scheduled for tomorrow, diehard fans of the 1813 novel voice a litany of complaints about Wright’s mushy, souped-up version - the latest in a long line - of the precise and elegant Austen.
Wright responds with an impolite suggestion.
“They can go jump in a lake,” Wright, I’m told, advises NPR L.A. correspondent Kim Masters for her piece on “Morning Edition.”
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My sympathies are entirely on the side of the Austen fans.
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