Becoming Jane - Film, Movie - Trailer

Description: Becoming Jane is a Columbia Pictures film expected to be released in 2007. The film is based on the early life of author Jane Austen, who is portrayed by Anne Hathaway, and her possible flirtations with Thomas Langlois Lefroy. Dame Maggie Smith and Julie Walters will also star in this picture, produced by an Irish production company,will be released by Miramax in the United States in August. Although the film goes well beyond what is provable in assuming a real relationship between Austen and Lefroy, the speculative, original screenplay was inspired by real events, which were also chronicled in a book by Jon Spence, a historical consultant on the film. Spence's book, also called "Becoming Jane", will be released in May by Hambledon Continuum, a division of the Continuum International Publishing Group.

Genres: biography, drama, omance

Starring: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Joe Anderson, Lucy Cohu, James Cromwell, Laurence Fox, Anna Maxwell Martin

Director: Julian Jarrold

Producers: Jeff Abberley, Nicole Finnan, Julia Blackman, Tim Haslam

Written by Kevin Hood, Sarah Williams

Music by Adrian Johnston

Cinematography Eigil Bryld

Editor: Emma E. Hickox

Distributed by Miramax Films

Release dates: March 9 (UK), August 3 (US)

Budget: €12,500,000 (estimate)