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What can you tell me about the 2005 movie version of Pride And Prejudice? – L.

Director Joe Wright initially played down Keira Knightley’s chances of playing Elizabeth, before being swayed by her tomboyish attitude.

The Atonement star recalled: “He initially thought I was too pretty, but then he met me and said ‘Oh, no you’re fine!’” Screenwriter Deborah Moggach spent more than two years adapting Jane Austen’s 1813 novel, working through 10 drafts.

Stately Chatsworth House, seat of the Duke of Devonshire, and Wilton House near Salisbury stood in as fictional Pemberley estate.