Michael Fassbender's fetish

Michael Fassbender is interviewd by a couple of movie websites today. He doesn't say anything new, but the first question asked by Movieline is something we were quite curious about:

You’d been attached to Wuthering Heights at one point — I guess you’ve got a real itch to do a Brontë adaptation!
Yeah, exactly. It’s a fetish of mine. No, I would have loved to do Wuthering Heights — that just fell apart, really. Originally, I was supposed to do it with John Maybury and Abbie Cornish, and I don’t know what happened, to be honest. John left the project for one reason or another and it didn’t come to pass. I was pretty disappointed, actually, because Wuthering Heights is my favorite love story.
What kind of take does Cary have for this version of Jane Eyre?
I don’t know yet, to be honest. I’ll just have to do my prep work and trust him for what he’s going to bring to it from a directorial sense. I love [his last film] Sin Nombre and I think he’s got an edge and a real talent for capturing moments in performances. We’ll just have to wait and see what he’s going to do with it, but I am very excited and I do like the character, Rochester. I think there’s a lot there to play with. I’m very excited about the actress playing Jane Eyre, Mia Wasi-…I’m trying to pronounce her second name.
Mia Wasikowska?
Yes! That’s it. I think she’s fantastic. I saw her stint on In Treatment and I think she’s got incredible skills. I’m very excited about that. (Kyle Buchanan)

And ComingSoon asks:

CS: Do you know when you'll start the "Jane Eyre" movie?
Fassbender: "Jane Eyre" is going to be after Soderbergh, and that's going to be with Cary Fukunaga who did "Sin Nombre"... brilliant. Really nice guy, and then David Cronenberg, "The Talking Cure," and that will sort of hook me up with Christoph. We never actually had a scene together, so I'm looking forward to that. (Edward Douglas)

The Millions wonders about readers on stage who 'knocked your socks off'. One of the answers has a Brontë touch:

Sonya Chung: The other night, poet/performance artist/novelist Sapphire – author of the novel Push, on which the feature film Precious is based – did a public reading at the National Arts Club in New York to kick off the Poetry Society of America’s Centennial. The event was also the opening reception for an impressive and seemingly exhaustive exhibit of drawings, photographs, and oil portraits of distinguished poets (living and dead) [...]
She sang, she incanted, she channeled and grooved. She read a poem about Charlotte Bronte’s Villette, another featuring Raskolnikov and Katerina, and the penultimate of the evening – a poem called “Survivor,” named for the reality show – that you’ll really just have to see/hear her read in person sometime. She stood in that venerable Gramercy parlor with 100 years of poetry creation and community welling up behind her, those venerable poets of yore looking on from their immortalized frames on all four walls; and one couldn’t help but be reminded of another kick-off event: January 20, 2009. Sapphire’s performance – both elegant and no-nonsense – and its spark of contextual incongruousness, made the reading utterly memorable.

The Times Gazette picks a few wintry reads, among them:

"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte
There is no way to do justice to this book. One of my "top five" along with "Great Expectations," "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Jane Eyre," "Wuthering Heights" is a passionate and brilliant story by one of the best writers who ever lived. (Katie Wright)

Yes, because people did like Wuthering Heights - and books in general - before Bella did. That's why we find this article from BlackBook quite amusing. Though it is an altogether different supernatural thing, Twilight fans might, too, enjoy meeting the ghost of Emily Brontë. As seen in the Keighley News:

Denholme is a popular haunt for spooks according to a district-wide ghost trail.
Bradford Ghost Hunters’ Journal reveals the town is the site of at least five hauntings.
They include a headless policeman, a white mist, a ghostly Roman legion and the vengeful spirit of an old woman.
The trail also includes several Haworth ghosts — including Emily Brontë. The Ghost Hunters’ Journal is part of a website devoted to paranormal occurrences in the Bradford area. (David Knights)

More details to be found on their website:

West of Denholme and what is reputed to be the ghost of Emily Bronte has been seen in a pub in Haworth’s Main Street. A ghostly woman wearing a long white dress also thought to be Emily Bronte has been seen walking near the Bronte Falls area of Haworth. These sightings date back some time.

If you are curious about this kind of thing, we also suggest the book Strange World of the Brontës by Marie Campbell and a very hilarious episode of Most Haunted featuring Haworth, the Black Bull and Branwell Brontë.

The blogosphere today is all about Jane Eyre: In the Making, Mindful Reviews and 1,000 Dog-Eared Pages all post about it.

Categories: Books, Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Poetry, Villette, Weirdo, Wuthering Heights