Unproduced Scripts: The Curious Tale of Jane Eyre

Variety and IonCinema announce the release of the 2008 BritList:

The eagerly anticipated list, inspired by Hollywood's Black List of best unproduced scripts, was voted on anonymously by more than 40 top-level figures in the U.K. and Irish film industries. Agents, producers, sales agents, distributors, studio execs and public funders provide up to 10 titles for voting on the privately circulated list. This year's list features 46 scripts from 160 original choices, all chosen from scripts that were not shooting at the time of the list's circulation. (Archie Thomas in Variety)

To qualify, the script should not be written by a US writer nor be greenlit for production at time of circulation. For inclusion, the script should score at least two votes from the industry people surveyed across all levels of seniority and sectors. (Eric Lavallee in IonCinema)

The list includes two Brontë projects:

2. Jane Eyre by Moira Buffini for BBC Films and Ruby Films. (more information)
6. Wuthering Heights by Olivia Hetreed for Ecosse Films. (more information)

The Sydney Morning Herald publishes a funny article about the current trends on novel titles:

This got me wondering whether publishers should consider renaming classics to lift sales in the modern market. Das Kapital could be renamed Marxinomics, Jane Eyre could be renamed The Curious Tale Of Jane Eyre and Mrs Dalloway could be renamed The Busy Woman's Guide To Hosting A Dinner Party. (Lisa Pryor)

The Guardian's Book Blog posts some thoughts about the concept of home. Discussing its poetical implications, Anne Brontë's poetry is mentioned:

But even when a poet is not actively seeking a return, the idea of home can be a powerfully evocative one that results in a strong sense of nostalgia. Poems such as Robert Browning's Home Thoughts, From Abroad, Laurie Lee's Home from Abroad, and Anne Brontë's Home all tap into this longing for a home abandoned. (Billy Mills)

Theatre actress and singer Faye Tozer is interviewed in the Daily Record:

BOOK: I'm not really a big reader, but when I was at school my favourite book was Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
I don't really have a least favourite book - if I don't like it, I don't finish it.

Another early Brontëite was Anne Rice who is interviewed in the St. Petersburg Times concerning the upcoming release of Called Out of Darkness, a spiritual memoir:

She writes in her memoir that, although she was writing novels herself while she was in elementary school, she could read fiction only very slowly. She doesn't recall enjoying a novel until she was in high school and read Great Expectations and Jane Eyre. "I think it took me about a year to read them. It might have taken two," she says. (Colette Bancroft)

More Brontëites, Trashionista interviews Meg Cabot:

Jennifer: What's one book you think every teen girl should read?
Apart from mine? [Laughs] I actually think every teen girl should read Jane Eyre. Or watch the movie because it's hotter.

The Telegraph-Journal (Canada) talks with Laurie Glenn Norris, author of Cumberland County in Fact and Folklore:

Laurie Glenn Norris's top book picks
1. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
This is the ultimate Gothic romance novel. I read it as a pre-teen and again as an adult, and the exchanges between Jane and Mr. Rochester never fail to give me chills. It's also a thoughtful study of 19th-century British class structure, gender roles and attitudes towards mental illness.

The Age considers that Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (which now celebrates its 140th anniversary) is

a gateway to those extraordinary novels that stretch from Austen through the Brontes to George Eliot, the supreme novelist of moral discrimination in a limited stretch of turf. A child who has her heart stolen away by Little Women may find herself enthralled by Middlemarch. (Peter Craven)

A Mingled Yarn announces that her own Librivox recording of Jane Eyre is now available. Mariakäfer reviews Jane Eyre 2006's German DVD release (in German). The series is also the main topic of a post on Prin îndrăzneală, către stele... (in Romanian), Reflejos de una caminante reviews the original novel (in Spanish) and Vintage Reads has read Shirley.

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