Cameras will start rolling on March 22nd

News about Cary Fukunaga's upcoming Jane Eyre film production. The Irish Film & Television Network gives dates and locations:

Production will commence shortly on the set of ‘Jane Eyre’. The new interpretation of the Charlotte Brontë novel from ‘Sin Nombre’ director Cary Fukunaga will see Irish actor Michael Fassbender take on the role of the ominous Mr. Rochester opposite Mia Wasikowska, Judi Dench and Jamie Bell. (...)
Cameras will start rolling on the film’s set on Monday, March 22nd and the shoot will last for eight weeks. The film will shoot on location in London and Derbyshire. The film is a co-production between BBC Films, Focus Features and Ruby Films and is expected to be released in early 2011.

The director of photography seems to be Adriano Goldman who also signed the cinematography of Cary Fukunaga's previous film Sin Nombre.

The new Rochester, Michael Fassbender, is also quoted on FemaleFirst:

Michael Fassbender has admitted that he is excited about taking on the role of Rochester is a new movie adaptation of Jane Eyre.
The Inglourious Basterds star is all set to appear alongside Alice In Wonderland actress Mia Wasikowska in the Cary Joji Fukunaga directed movie.
In an interview with Empire Fassbender said: "I was close to doing Wuthering Heights a couple of years ago, And you don't get Heathcliff, Rochester has got to be second on the list.
"It's a great role, there are so many layers to him. He's been hurt, and there's cruelty to him which I look for ward to exploring.
"And Mia is such a great talent; she's going to be a big star."

The Scotsman reviews the Perth production of Polly Teale's Jane Eyre:

IN THE age of "chick lit" – full of ideas of female raunchiness almost entirely shaped by a male-dominated porn industry – it's downright refreshing, on a Saturday lunchtime in Perth, to be plunged back into the 19th century world of Charlotte Brontë
Brontë lived, after all, in an age when sex was rarely discussed in public. She was, therefore, able, as one of the boldest artists of her age, to define the erotic almost entirely for herself; and what she created – in the encounter between her mousy but passionate heroine Jane Eyre, and Jane's brooding, life-scarred lover Mr Rochester – is one of the great enduring templates of all romantic literature, still adored by women across the world.
Brontë was a true proto-feminist, of course. In Jane Eyre, she smashes the starry-eyed phase of Jane's romance – full of language that seems to reduce Jane to Rochester's plaything – with a mighty fist of rebellious truth; she allows the happy ending only when Jane has found her own fortune, and Rochester has been blinded into physical dependency. But what is most striking about the story is Brontë's insistence that Jane should be true to her own fierce physical feeling for Rochester. "Nothing speaks or stirs in me when you talk," cries Jane to her respectable clergyman admirer, when he proposes marriage; and even today, women instantly recognise that tension between the man who offers everything you could reasonably want in life, and the man who seems – despite everything – to be the best reason for living at all.
There's already something slightly comical and dated about Polly Teale's 1997 stage version of the novel, which rushes with a kind of rash and literal theatrical energy at the novel's central symbolic tension between Jane, the mousy governess in the Thornfield schoolroom – played with a nice, unpretentious passion, at Perth, by Kath Duggan – and Bertha, the mad Creole wife in the attic, who represents unchained female sexuality and rage, and is brought to life by a fiercely athletic Vanessa Cook. This vivid physical image of Jane's divided self works well at some moments – notably during Jane's uneasy early romance with Rochester – and looks more awkward at others.
Even at its least convincing, though, it always brings a powerful theatrical and visual energy to Ian Grieve's production, which features a strong multi-level design by Ken Harrison, and excellent live and recorded music and sound by Jon Beales and Iain Johnstone. And if Tom McGovern, as Rochester, is not exactly the romantic hero of our dreams – no woman director would have cast him, I fear – he still makes a bold attempt both at a Yorkshire accent, and at the brooding presence of a romantic homme fatal; bold enough, at any rate, to let the dynamism of Brontë's mighty story speak for itself, in a voice that still seems radical and disturbing, 163 years on. (Joyce McMillan)

Now, several Brontëites: Community Press (Canada) interviews Murray C. Watson, author of If Only Sleep Would Last Forever where

He added many of the relevant collected quotations to If Only Sleep Would Last Forever, bringing the words of Shakespeare, George MacDonald, Mark Twain, Cicero, Einstein, Gandhi, Charlotte Bronte and many others to bear on the problem of depression. (Mark Hoult)

FasterLouder interviews the singer Emilie Autumn:

In previous interviews, you have mentioned that you draw more inspiration from books and stories you’ve read as opposed to music you hear or listen to. Which authors or genres are you most attracted to and find most inspiring?
Shakespeare, obviously, then Wilde, Poe, the Bronte sisters, Jane Austin (sic), the list goes on.

The author Tiffany Murray is interviewed in The Western Mail (Wales):

“I like to layer in other books into what I write so there’s lots of Wuthering Heights in [Diamond Star Halo] and Jane Eyre in Happy Accidents." (Claire Rees)

The Montreal Gazette once again reminds us the (in)famous words of Charlotte Brontë about Jane Austen.

Not everyone loves Austen. That was as true in the past as it is today. In the mid-19th century, Charlotte Brontë considered Austen second-rate. (Monique Polak)

Not exactly. Charlotte Brontë considered that Austen was passionless, too much cerebral. Not the same.

The latest film of Roman Polanski, Ghost Writer, is reviewed on the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel:

"The Ghost Writer" is equal parts pulp and political thriller, and Polanski follows both threads. It is set in a gray and overcast world as stark as Heathcliff's moors, where the threat level is elevated and caretakers sweeping beach sand off the wind-blown patio suggest the futility of resisting forces that are beyond our control. (Duane Dudek)

The Sun Daily (Malaysia) recommends visiting England, including Brontë country, The Guardian mentions the Brontës in an article about feminist pilgrimages, flavorwire lists Catherine Earnshaw in a Literary Ladies in Desperate Need of a Gay Friend top ten. Womenbefriends posts a missing Jane Eyre chapter and Alma Cigana posts about the Brontës in Portuguese.

Categories: Brontëites, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, References, Theatre, Wuthering Heights