Netflix has got another raunchy film in the works. This time around the streaming giant has announced plans to adapt DH Lawrence’s banned and controversial book Lady Chatterley’s Lover into a film. The film will follow on the heels of other sensual series on the streamer like Sex/Life, Bridgerton, 365 Days and others. The film will star Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell and Matthew Duckett in the lead.

The film will be directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre and will be romance drama based on Lawrence’s book Lady Chatterley’s Lover where an aristocratic married woman engages in a torrid affair with the estate gamekeeper.

Director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre's romance drama is a re-telling of the classic D.H. Lawrence novel about a married woman who engages in a torrid affair with the estate gamekeeper.

— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) August 18, 2021

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The novel was first published in Florence in 1928 but the books wasn’t available in the UK until the 1960s due to its explicit sexual content and swear words which was deemed too obscene to be read. However, an expurgated version was released in England four years later after its first publication. It took almost 30 years for the full text to be published in New York City and in 1960 in London, around the same time it was the subject of an obscenity trial (Regina v. Penguin Books, Ltd.) over its use of 'risqué' sexual references.

The book follows the story of Constance (Connie) Chatterley, who is married to a wealthy landowner, Sir Clifford. However, he is paralyzed from the waist down and hence spends his time in managing his estate without giving much attention to his wife. Out of love and lonely, Connie soon finds herself gravitating towards the estate’s gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Their affair brings Connie at the tipping point where she must choose between her loveless marriage and a chance to find happiness with the man she loves by breaking free from propriety and societal rules.

The film’s release date has not been announced yet.

(Source: Twitter)