I guess you can only tell the same story over and over again so many times before you start looking for ways to make it "new" again.

In recent years, Pride and Prejudice has been adapted as a BBC mini-series with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth and as a big-screen movie with Keira Knightley and Matthew MacFadyen, and it has also been honoured and spoofed and recontextualized in everything from Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) to Bride and Prejudice (2004).

Now get ready for the time-travel and space-monster versions.

Lost in Austen is a mini-series that aired on the ITV network in Britain last year, before coming to the United States in January; it stars Jemima Rooper as a modern woman who trades places with P&P heroine Elizabeth Bennet after the two of them discover a portal between Rooper's apartment and the world of P&P.

Variety reports that Columbia Pictures is now planning to turn this mini-series into a feature film, with Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road) ...

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