Carrie Brownstein currently helps flesh out the modern hipsters and weirdos of the Pacific Northwest onthe IFC comedy Portlandia.But her newest writing projectlooks to the past: As Variety reports, Brownstein has signed on to write a film adaptation of the U.K. series Lost in Austen, which finds a modern day Brooklynite transported to the world (19th century England) of Jane Austens 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice.
Lost in Austenwill be Brownsteins first film writing credit; it wasone of screenwriter Nora Ephrons unfinished projects at the time of her 2012 death. The film will be produced by Columbia Pictures, Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris (of Neal Street Productions) and Nathan Kahane (of Good Universe); executive produced by Nicolas Brown (Neal Street), John Middleton, Roy Lee and Joe Drake; and overseen by Good Universes Erin Westerman.
Between her various film and TV projects, Brownstein is staying busy. Shes also been working on a memoir, tentatively due out next year.
Its difficult, she told Rolling Stone of writing the book earlier this year. I feel too young to do this, but I cant imagine waiting 30 years and trying to remember it all. The book focuses partially on Brownsteins time in her former band Sleater-Kinney, and shesinterviewed family members and former bandmates to help corroborate her own memories. Throughout the process, shes come to blame herself for tensions that led to the groups indefinite hiatus in 2006.
I feel a lot more culpable than I ever thought I would, she said. My anxiety was getting bigger than the band. For (bandmate) Corin (Tucker), it was kind of like, Well, this isnt fun anymore, because we have this crazy person in the band. Meaning me.