Netflix's upcoming Pride and Prejudice series may just have found a Scottish Mr Darcy in Slow Horses star Jack Lowden.
As Joe Wright's movie adaptation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel is turning 20 this year, Variety reports Lowden is in talks to play Darcy in the series written by Everything I Know About Love author Dolly Alderton.
Netflix declined to comment on the rumour and the series is yet to receive a release date.
The Pride and Prejudice series marks Netflix's latest Austen adaptation after the modernised version, Persuasion, which starred Fifty Shades of Grey actor Dakota Johnson in the lead role and was released in 2022.
If Lowden does take on the iconic role, he'll be in some very good company.
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Darcy has previously been played by Succession star Matthew Macfadyen opposite Keira Knightley in Wright's Oscar-nominated Pride & Prejudice.
The movie, which earned Knightley an Oscar nod for Best Actress, also starred Rosamund Pike, Carey Mulligan, and Kelly Reilly, with Vera star Brenda Blethyn and late acting legend Donald Sutherland in the roles of Mrs and Mr Bennet.
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Pride and Prejudice also enjoyed a beloved six-part TV adaptation for the BBC.
It aired in 1995 and the series saw Colin Firth's popularity skyrocketing after he played the role of Darcy alongside Jennifer Ehle's Elizabeth.
But they weren't the only adaptations of Austen's novel. It's also inspired literary parodies set in the fictional worlds, too.
Among those is horror comedy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, adapted from the novel of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith and starring Lily James as Elizabeth and Sam Riley as Darcy.
The Pride and Prejudice series will stream on Netflix.
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