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No. Bright Star is based on a screenplay by New Zealand film-maker Jane Campion, who also directed the movie. The film is based on the last three years of the life of English Romance poet John Keats [1795 1821], who died of tuberculosis at the early age of 25.

Yes. "Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art " is the first line of a Keats sonnet written in 1819 and first published in The Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal in 1838. A copy of the sonnet can be read here.

The official website for Bright Star can be found here.

Yes. Because no one owns the copyright to Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne, google scanned it and made it available online. Read the full text here. There are about 39 of his letters to her that she kept.