Goldcrest enters Wuthering Heights and Rochester's controversial underwear

Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights project has a new investor, according to Deadline London, Goldcrest Films:

The venerable British film company is covering 20% of the budget for Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold’s new version starting shooting this autumn. Kaya Scodelario from UK teen series Skins is the only cast member attached so far. Co-financiers include Film4, UK Film Council and regional agency Screen Yorkshire. Hanway Films is selling this Ecosse Films project internationally. (Tim Adler)

Ecosse Films's bosses, Douglas Rae and Robert Bernstein, talk with Variety about their projects, including Wuthering Heights:

And it's working on Andrea Arnold's adaptation of Emily Bronte's tome "Wuthering Heights."
"She's a very interesting filmmaker," Rae says, "very centered, very focussed and very individual."
Bernstein adds that while the project is period, it's not traditional: "I think if you're going to do something period, you have to do something that has a skew to it, something different." (Diana Loderhose)

The Millions has a funny article about Jane Eyre, and Rochester in particular:

And, Mr. Rochester, if he isn’t an asshole, he’s a psychopath–or, simply creepy and duplicitous. I can’t believe he was voted most romantic literary character in a British poll last year. That’s messed up. Are they kinkier in England? (The Telegraph article on the subject, by the way, mentions that the results were revealed at a literary festival, where “guests were served pink champagne by scantily-clad waiters.” Oh dear.)
Let’s consider some points against old Edward, shall we? (Read more)

We were particularly 'LOL' with this one:

But once Jane has declared that her love for him still remains, he reveals that for the past year, he’s been wearing the pearl necklace (ahem) he had given her during their engagement. Some might call this romance, I call it a problem. I wouldn’t be surprised if Rochester likes to wear Jane’s underwear, too. Or, let’s be honest: Bertha’s. (Edan Lepucki)

Nevertheless, Mr Rochester's honour has found an honest and passionate champion in The Squeee who rebukes point by point the aforementioned article.

A couple of Brontëites. Poet Trini Finlay in The Telegraph-Journal:

Finlay was also a voracious reader. Her favourite authors weren't canonical greats like Jane Austen, Emily Brontë or George Eliot. (Thomas Hodd)

And the late Edwin Morgan in The Guardian:

In 1978 he was my tutor at Glasgow University – passionate about Emily Brontë and Milton's Areopagitica, that great defence of freedom of speech ("I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue"). (Robert Crawford)

The Telegraph reviews BBC's Vexed and cannot talk about Toby Stephens without mentioning Jane Eyre 2006:

The son of Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, he’s practically thespian royalty – and has appeared in some pretty decent dramas in his time (the BBC’s Jane Eyre among others). (Patrick Smith)

To review a book after having read Jane Eyre has its consequences. The Globe and Mail talks about Rick Moody's The Four Fingers of Death:

Moody’s characters engage in long, funky speeches that I didn’t find excessive in the least, having just come off reading (and crazily enjoying the earnest Gothic excesses of) Jane Eyre, in which characters don’t so much have conversations as provide an ongoing exegesis of the state of their souls. The tortured Capt. Jim Rose in Four Fingers of Death could easily be a literary descendent of the puritanical and monomaniacal St. John Rivers, Jane’s erstwhile suitor. (Zsuzsi Gartner)

La Nación (Argentina) remembers local radio actors like Pedro López Lagar:

El particular timbre y el modo de decir de Pedro López Lagar hicieron célebre su reiterada invocación en la versión radial de Cumbres borrascosas , de Emily Brontë: "¡Cathy, Cathy, Cathy!", por radio El Mundo. Lo que le acarreó también tomadas de pelo en los programas cómicos. (Ernesto Schoo) (Google translation)

Los Angeles Times talks about another production of The Mystery of Irma Vep (by The Celebration Theatre & Deconstructed Productions in association with SPACE916); The Coronation Street Blog describes Chris Gascoyne's character as having that saturnine, Heathcliff-type look going on, which is very engaging; A Thought a Day (Lets the Mind Out to Play) and Bookworm Tells All post about Jane Eyre; Wonders in the Dark reviews Yoshishige Yoshida's Wuthering Heights/Onimaru 1988 and The Sparklife Blog continues blogging Emily Brontë's novel (Part 10); French visitors in Haworth in Midi Libre. Finally, thomasengqvist shares on YouTube two (1,2) brief videos about Top Withens.

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