Georgia Oakley will direct the movie based on Jane Austen's Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother for Focus Features and Working Title Films.

Daisy Edgar-Jones is set to headline a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic Sense and Sensibility for Focus Features and Working Title Films, the companies announced on Wednesday. The project returns Focus and Working Title to Austen’s body of work,

Georgia Oakley, who is coming off a People's Choice Award win at Venice for her feature debut "Blue Jean," will direct the film from a screenplay by author Diana Reid. Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films will produce alongside India Flint of November Pictures and Jo Wallett.