The ‘Sense & Sensibility’ Trailer Looks Glum But Is Full of Heart
The new 'Sense & Sensibility' looks very beige, but the Dashwood sisters’ chemistry is off the charts.
Jane Austen fans are living their best lives at the moment. The Austen-adjacent The Other Bennet Sister just wrapped up a thoroughly delightful run on BritBox (with a Christmas special still to come), and Netflix’s limited series adaptation of Pride & Prejudice is slated to arrive later this year. And the trailer is finally here for the new Sense & Sensibility, along with the news that the film will be landing in theaters this October.
Based on Austen’s first novel, the story follows the Dashwood family, three sisters and their widowed mother, who are forced to leave the family estate in Sussex and relocate to more modest living arrangements in Devon following the death of their father. Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) and Esmé Creed-Miles (The Sandman) play sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, whose outlooks and approaches to life and love are vastly different. Elinor is practical and reserved, while Marianne is emotional and romantic, and both young women find their viewpoints challenged throughout the story.
The trailer introduces us to all the story’s major players (Willoughby, what is that hat?) and includes several of the novel’s most famous lines, shot through with the sort of tremendous yearning we all want from any Austen adaptation. Unfortunately, it also appears to confirm that the movie has embraced the irritatingly popular film trend of dousing everything in a muddy brown filter, rendering scenes in an unattractive sepia tone that makes them appear as though they’re taking place inside a cave rather than a Regency ballroom.
On the plus side, it’s evident even in this brief clip that Edgar-Jones and Creed-Miles have outstanding sibling chemistry, and the film seems to prioritize the Dashwood sisters’ relationship.
(Since we only get about 30 seconds of Colonel Brandon, the jury is still out there.)
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Here’s the (exceedingly basic) synopsis.
From Focus Features and Working Title comes an irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.
(Focus Features)
Alongside Edgar-Jones and Creed-Miles, the film’s cast is appropriately buzzy and features several faces who will be quite familiar to Anglophiles. The ensemble includes Caitríona Balfe (Outlander) as Mrs. Dashwood, George McKay (1917) as Edward Ferrars, Frank Dillane as John Willoughby (Joan), Fiona Shaw (Andor) as Mrs. Jennings, Bodhi Rae Breathnach (Hamnet) as Margaret Dashwood, and Herbert Nordrum (Beforeigners) as Colonel Brandon.
(Photos: Courtesy of Focus Features)
Bestselling Australian author Diana Reid wrote the script, with Georgia Oakley (Atonement) directing.
Jo Wallett produces, along with Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner for Working Title Films and India Flint of November Pictures. Executive producers include Thea Paulett and Angela Moneke. The new Sense and Sensibility hails from Working Title and Focus Features, the same team that made the 2005 Pride & Prejudice and the 2020 Emma.
Sense & Sensibility will be released in theaters on Friday, October 16, 2026.
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