Lunch with 'Jane Austen'

Just hours after attending the world premiere of “The Jane Austen Book Club” at the Toronto Film Festival, pic’s scribe-helmer Robin Swicord and thesps Hugh Dancy and Lynn Redgrave made their way down to Gotham for a Monday lunch in honor of the film at the Brasserie Ruhlmann at Rockefeller Center.

“I had three hours of sleep last night,” Swicord said. “I just flew back this morning.” Based on Karen Joy Fowler’s bestselling novel by the same name, pic is about a group of women who form a book club devoted to Austen's novels. After the release of this year’s “Becoming Jane” and a slew of Austen-based movies released in the last decade, the helmer had some advice for industryites thinking about another scribe-based pic. “I definitely think that right now would not be the best time to bring out yet another Austen movie,” before adding,  “but she never goes out of style. She is for the ages.” (A. Morfoot)