Emma movie 2020: we reveal the trailer, soundtrack, cast and release date – Classic FM

16 January 2020, 13:15 | Updated: 16 January 2020, 14:55

Featuring a stellar cast including Bill Nighy, British comedian Miranda Hart and award-winning actress Anya Taylor-Joy, the upcoming comedy-drama is a witty new take on Jane Austens classic novel.

Emma, a new comedy-drama based on Jane Austens 1815 novel, follows the adventures of a young woman in Georgian- and Regency-era England who likes to occupy herself with matchmaking.

Despite her ongoing commitment to helping friends and family find love, Miss Woodhouse who is known to be handsome, clever and rich often finds that her matchmaking antics dont always go to plan.

In the second trailer (watch above) Emmas friend the kind, but often hapless Harriet Smith rushes to her side and explains: You will never guess what has happened Robert Martin has offered me his hand. Do advise me!

At first, Emma replies: Oh no no no, the words must be your own. You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

But just as in the novel, the young cupid soon finds herself meddling in Harriets affairs and when things go wrong, George Knightley who later becomes her love interest scolds her: Emma, this is your doing.

Led by Autumn de Wilde, which is a debut for the American photographer and director, and written by New Zealand novelist and 2013 Man Booker Prize winner, Eleanor Catton, the movie gives us a humorous insight into the life of Emma and her many acquaintances.

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English composer and former Royal Academy of Music scholar, Isobel Waller-Bridge, has written the soundtrack for Emma.

Waller-Bridge is best known for penning the music to TV comedy-drama series, Fleabag, starring and written by her sister, Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The shows dramatic choral music was the perfect accompaniment for its witty female protagonist, so Emma is a logical next step in the young composers career.

In the trailer for Emma, we hear the charming and undeniably catchy Papageno-Papagena duet from Mozarts opera The Magic Flute. Its a fitting musical backdrop, since the opera tells the story of a young prince, Tamino, who enters a quest to win the hand of princess Pamina...

Waller-Bridge was also the composer behind the 2018 feature film, Vita and Virginia, 2016 TV series, War & Peace, Vanity Fair (2018), and the 2019 Black Mirror episode, Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too, with music sung by pop icon Miley Cyrus.

Argentine and English model and actress, Anya Taylor-Joy, has been cast as the leading role of Emma Woodhouse. She is best known for her roles as Thomasin in the 2015 period horror movie, The Witch, and Casey Cooke in the horror-thriller films, Split (2016) and Glass (2019).

Her modelling career began after she was scouted while walking outside Harrods Department Store, London, and it was through her impressive work that she met and signed with an acting agent.

Since then, Taylor-Joy has enjoyed great success on screen, and was the 2017 winner of the Cannes Film Festivals Trophe Chopard, one of two prestigious annual awards giving recognition to young actors.

Joining her in the cast is British singer-songwriter, Johnny Flynn, as George Knightley, English actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean) as Mr. Woodhouse, and English comedian and actress Miranda Hart as Miss Bates, among others.

Emma is scheduled for release in the UK on 14 February 2020 and in the US on 21 February 2020.

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