Career Resurrection: Kate Beckinsale's career had slowed down in The New '10s, doing lesser seen projects, Lifetime movies and voiceover work. The movie became a hit, and she won rave reviews for her performance.
Fake Brit: Australian actor Xavier Samuels plays the English Reginald DeCourcy.
No Budget: The whole thing was made on a shoestring of only $3 million.
Recursive Adaptation: The film itself received a novelisation, with the original twenty four letters from Lady Susan included in the appendix.
Sleeper Hit: A film based on one of the least-well known Jane Austen novels, made for $3 million and featuring no major stars (save for Stephen Fry in a cameo). It was also released in the summer, and yet made four times its budget back within a month - and got a whopping 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
What Could Have Been: The adaptation was originally planned as a vehicle for Sienna Miller, but she had to drop out to do American Sniper, and was replaced by Kate Beckinsale.
