Lynn Redgrave, Kathy Baker and Marc Blucas have joined the cast of the drama, The Jane Austen Book Club for Sony Pictures Classics.

Already in the flick, Maria Bello, Emily Blunt, Jimmy Smits, Amy Brenneman, Hugh Dancy, Maggie Grace and Kevin Zegers. Robin Swicord will direct from her own adaptation of the Karen Joy Fowler novel about five women and a man who gather to discuss Jane Austen's fiction and realize their lives are playing out in a 21st century version of one of her novels, says Variety.

The Jane Austen Book Club starts shooting in Los Angeles next month.