Brontë's small changes

Some small changes to previous information reported about the upcoming Brontë biopic. The producer's website (AMC Pictures) gives a new date:

Bronte is intended to commence principal photography on 3rd September 2007

And there is a new poster, albeit too small, for the production.

EDIT: And finally, there is absolute confirmation of the casting of Bryce Dallas Howard and Evan Rachel Wood in Brontë, as we published a week ago.

In Variety:

CANNES -- Michelle Williams, Bryce Dallas Howard and Evan Rachel Wood are lining up to star in "Bronte," a biopic written and to be directed by Charles Sturridge.

Pic is set to shoot in September.

Icon Entertainment Intl. has picked up foreign sales for "Bronte," with ICM representing the project in North America. Alastair Maclean-Clark and Basil Stephens of AMC Pictures are producing. Sturridge's screenplay is based on an original script by Angela Workman.

The Bronte sisters and their brother Branwell grew up in isolation on the Yorkshire moors and went on to write some of the most enduring novels in the canon of English literature -- Charlotte's "Jane Eyre," Emily's "Wuthering Heights" and Anne's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall."

As children, they created epic fantasy worlds to entertain themselves, led by the charismatic Branwell, but when he descended into alcohol and opium abuse, the sisters had to find their own way in a world dominated by strict patriarchal conventions. This initially forced them to disguise their identities by publishing under male pseudonyms.

Sturridge commented, "My family comes from Yorkshire, and I grew up with five sisters, so this is a story I have always wanted to tell." (Adam Dawtrey)

"We all remember the lost childhoods, but these amazing girls never abandoned them and applied the same unique and uncompromising daring to their work as adults."

Charlotte Bronte, arguably the most talented of the three, died at the age of 39. Jane Eyre was published in 1847 and was an instant success.

Filming begins in September and the movie is expected to be released in 2009.

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