Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is getting another outing on the screen, thirty years on from the film adaptation, which saw Emma Thompson win the Oscar for Best Writing.
The film, which is led by Daisy Edgar-Jones, is one of the most anticipated adaptations coming down the line, and now we have a first look!
Here’s everything you need to know about Sense and Sensibility:
Who is starring?
Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as Marianne Dashwood. Pic: Focus Features
Daisy Edgar-Jones is taking over from Thompson in playing the eldest of the Dashwood siblings, Elinor.
She told Elle of playing the part: ‘It’s also an interesting thing, being a woman in your 20s, wanting to find characters who are not always ingénues.
‘You want to find characters with agency. I want every character I play to be complicated and deep and have layers to them, because that’s what it is to be human.’
Fiona Shaw in Killing Eve. Pic: BBC
Hanna star Esmé Creed-Miles will star as Marianne Dashwood, the emotional and reckless sister. In July 2025, it was announced that Belfast star Caitríona Balfe will also appear in the remake.
She joins fellow Irish actor Fiona Shaw in the cast along with George MacKay, Frank Dillane, Herbert Nordrum, and Bodhi Breathnach.
What’s it all about?
Daisy Edgar-Jones as Elinor Dashwood and George MacKay as Edward Ferrars in Sense & Sensibility. Pic: Focus Features
If you haven’t already seen the earlier versions of Sense and Sensibility, it follows the fortunes of the three Dashwood sisters in the 18th Century.
Following the death of their father, the sisters and their mother are forced to move out of their family estate and into a cottage with a relative.
Their half-brother, who had promised their father that he would support them, is instead persuaded by his wife to withhold financial support and also sets about blocking a potential match with Elinor and her brother.
Marianne, meanwhile, is attempting to stave off a marriage to the much older but wealthy Colonel Brandon and instead falls in love with the dashing but weak-willed John Willoughby.
As the plot unfolds, the sisters find themselves experiencing contrasting relationship stories.
First Look pics
Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Elinor Dashwood in SENSE & SENSIBILITY. Pic: Focus Features
First look pictures of the film show a forlorn Daisy as Elinor standing in the picturesque valley, while in others, she is gazing into the eyes of George MacKay as Edward Ferrars.
‘It was really important to me to feel like we’re watching a story about human beings, and we can actually feel what it was like to live in the houses that they lived in – irrespective of whether we’re talking about a mouldy cottage on the edge of the sea or a huge, palatial country house.’ Director Georgia Oakley told Vogue.
First Look trailer
The first look trailer was released in June 2026 and starts out with the sisters despairing as they read their father’s will and realise that they have to move out of their family home.
Then we get a glimpse of the first chemistry-laden meeting between Elinor and Edward. ‘I like him, I greatly esteem him’ she tells her sister in the next scene.
The trailer cuts to Marianne being ‘rescued’ and subsequently falling for Mr Willoughby, and wraps up with Elionor and Edward’s connection deepening.
When will it be released?
Pic: Esmé Creed-Miles/Instagram
Sense and Sensibility will be released on 25th September 2026