Jamie Bell, Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins and Imogen Poots in negotiations to join Jane Eyre cast

Some news about the Brontë films projects. BBC News talks with Andrea Arnold, the new attached director for Wuthering Heights:

Andrea Arnold, the Oscar-winning director of Fish Tank, has spoken of the "huge responsibility" that comes with her new project Wuthering Heights.
It was announced last month that Arnold would be taking on Olivia Hetreed's adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel.
Arnold won a Bafta for her 2006 debut Red Road and an Oscar in 2004 for her short film Wasp.
"Wuthering Heights is something close to my heart," Arnold said at the London Evening Standard Film Awards this week.
"I think it's close to a lot of people's hearts which makes it a huge responsibility. It may not be to everyone's taste but that's okay."
It is the first time Arnold will direct a film that she has not written. She took over the project from Peter Webber, director of Girl With a Pearl Earring.
Arnold told the BBC: "It dropped out of the sky before Christmas for me, and I never thought I would ever take on an adaptation of a book of any kind or even someone else's script."
Arnold said Wuthering Heights had a lot in common with her gritty Essex drama Fish Tank, which took the jury prize at Cannes in 2009, and won best film at the Evening Standard film awards.
"Think about Heathcliff, he's an outsider, he's a Gypsy boy. It's a big class story. All my films have been about class, and Wuthering Heights is more of the same," she said.
"We are in pre-production, running up and down to Yorkshire and meeting people. It's forming itself."
Asked about casting, Arnold said: "I've got a picture of someone on my phone, but I'm not going to show you!"(Tim Masters)

Rumours say that Gemma Arterton and Ed Westwick are no longer attached to the production.

And the Hollywood Reporter gives some new names for the Jane Eyre project directed by Cary Fukunaga: Jamie Bell as St John, Judi Dench as Mrs Fairfax, Sally Hawkins as Mrs Reed and Imogen Poots as, probably, Blanche Ingram (or Rosamond Oliver?):

Jamie Bell, Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins and Imogen Poots are in negotiations to join the cast of "Jane Eyre," an adaptation of the classic Charlotte Bronte novel.
Cary Fukunaga is directing for BBC Films and Focus Features, which is handling sales at EFM.
Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender are at the center of the Gothic tale, which follows young governess Jane Eyre (Wasikowska), who falls in love with her employer, Edward Rochester (Fassbender), but discovers he harbors a dark secret.
Bell will play St. John, a clergyman who turns out to be Eyre's cousin. Dench will play Mrs. Fairfax, the housekeeper of Thornfield Manor, who disapproves of Eyre's engagement with Rochester.
Hawkins is Mrs. Reed, Eyre's aunt, who adopts her but abuses and neglects her until death.
Alison Owen and Paul Trijbits of Ruby Films are producing with BBC Films and Focus.
Bell, repped by WME and AIM, next stars in the Roman epic adventure "The Eagle of the Ninth," which Focus financed and is releasing in the U.S. (Borys Kit)

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