Emily Brontë Express

Publishers Weekly has compiled a list of movie tie-in books to be released in the coming months.

Two films here are remakes of Hollywood classics—will the leading ladies in new adaptations of Jane Eyre and Mildred Pierce (staples these days of Turner Classic Movies) be able to erase memories of those two stunning Joans, Fontaine and Crawford? [...]
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Jane Eyre
Starring Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench
Directed by Cary Fukunaga
Release date March 11 (Focus Features, limited)
Tie-in from Vintage Books: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (hardcover, trade, e-book [will include screenplay])
Talk about remakes. Jane's nearly two dozen film and TV versions listed on IMDb.com range chronologically from a 50-minute 1914 silent movie to a 2006 British TV miniseries. Of course the classic, as noted earlier, is the 1943 film starring Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles. Other incarnations include a 1983 BBC miniseries, a 1968 Greek version, and, from 1996, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre—lest there be no authorial confusion. The newest Jane appeared in The Kids Are All Right and played the title role in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland; Fukunaga directed and wrote last year's Sin Nombre, which won the Directing Award at Sundance plus several film critics association awards. (Dick Donahue)

We find the fact that the e-book will also include the screenplay quite interesting actually.

It seems unlikely though that chef Nigella Lawson will see a film of one of her books (but then again who knows?), although she admits that she would have liked to be a novelist:

“I was going to be a great novelist and what am I? I’m a circus act. Nigella Express sold a million copies. Obviously I was very pleased but I was also embarrassed. It wasn’t a ‘proper’ book.”

And the Express draws the following conclusion from that:

Nigella Lawson decries her success as a celebrity cook as a “circus act”, revealing what she really wanted was to be the next Emily Brontë or Charles Dickens.

Er - yeah, sure.

And this is how The Herald (Scotland) describes one of Bullet For My Valentine's songs:

. . . the ludicrously overblown sentiment of the group’s newest single Bittersweet Memories, a song that could only have added more emotion if Kate Bush had turned up to warble about Heathcliff. (Jonathan Geddes)

The blogosphere is all about Jane Eyre: Laura's Reading posts about Jane Eyre, [Bloggers [[heart]] Books] reviews April Lindner's Jane and Rebekah Reads the Library and Tyler Learns to Read writes about Emma Tennant's Adèle.

Finally, YouTube user mretonboy has uploaded a very Christmassy video of Haworth.

Categories: Books, Haworth, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Music