Jane Eyre on a plane

The Prospector lists Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre among this year's adaptations:

Other popular books being adapted into films include the American version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" directed by David Fincher and starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig, "Water for Elephants," starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon, "Beastly," a modern take on Beauty and the Beast featuring Vanessa Hudgens, another adaptation of "Jane Eyre" and "Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2." (Alejandro Alba)

And The Vine includes Jamie Bell on a top ten of former child stars and highlights his forthcoming role as St. John Rivers.

Of most interest is a new adaptation of Jane Eyre, due out in May, where Bell stars along side Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. (Thomas Caldwell)

Anna Paquin is also on the top ten:

Unsure about whether she wanted to continue acting she laid low for a few years to then act again in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1996 adaptation of Jane Eyre. (Thomas Caldwell)

It's beginning to sound as if Jane Eyre was some sort of rite of passage for child actors! In fact the top ten could go on to include other names such as Elizabeth Taylor or even Georgie Henley.

Still on the topic of adaptations, the Guardian tells the anecdote of how Susannah York came to be cast for the role of Cathryn in Images.

Robert Altman had a dream, about a woman going mad in a country house. He didn't know how to cast the part until he saw Jane Eyre on a plane – the version with George C Scott as Rochester and York as Jane. He liked the look of her and sent her a kind of script. (David Thomson)

Stuart Kelly quotes from Anne Brontë on his Scotsman column:

Lord Lowborough in Anne Brontë's The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall is described as being "born under an unlucky star". The phrase flitted through my mind while I was whiling away the time on a new website, bibliOz.com, which tells you the bestselling books in the week of your birth: a kind of biblio-astrology. The fiction chart in that fateful week was topped by Richard Bach's trite Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, while the non-fiction chart had Thomas Harris - not the author of Silence Of The Lambs but Thomas Anthony Harris, author of I'm OK, You're OK, pipping Nena and George O'Neill's Open Marriage to the number one slot. Reading the bestseller lists of yesteryear is a kind of pleasurable meditation on vanitas. Maybe one day Cheryl Cole and Jamie Oliver will seem as distant and mysterious.

The Spoof has published chapter one of Tales From The Yorkshire Dales, which looks like a parody of Wuthering Heights. A couple of blogs post about that actual novel: Libros en la hierba (in Spanish) and Romanzi 2.0 (in Italian). Burning.x.Impossibly.x.Bright writes about Jane Eyre. Hiking and Camping Equipment shares a commentary and a video of a recent 7 mile hike via Top Withens. And YouTube user pudrick1 has uploaded a video of images of Haworth and what they think might be a Brontë ghost.

Categories: Haworth, Humour, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights