Jamie Bell speaks (briefly) about Jane Eyre

Jamie Bell, who plays St John Rivers in Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre - talks briefly about the film (and many other projects) with Collider. He says that the cast is 'a really great bunch of people, really great actors' and he also says that Fukunaga's is a 'very fresh take, [...] a more dark and Gothic take on Jane Eyre'. Watch the full interview here. The minute or so on Jane Eyre starts at about 4:40 minutes into it.

In an article about Mike Newell's new film of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, SlashFilm mentions precisely the 'fresh take' aspect of this new Jane Eyre adaptation as well as the new Wuthering Heights:

Given that this is part of a celebration of Dickens I’d expect not so much a modernization as a period tale told with a bit of modern flair — think of the upcoming versions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights that have already been shot for release this year.

The Spectator Book Blog thinks the second episode of Faulks on Fiction (also a TV programme as a complement to the book) devoted to 'the lover' in English literature will be quite prim:

Episode two will take on 'the lover'. Thankfully, this being fiction rather than poetry we will be spared any birds-and-the-bees stuff on Elizabethan innuendo or Augustan puns. Though with a literary history like ours (Elizabeth Bennett, Jane Eyre and Dorothea Brooke) get prepared for lots of polite courtship, matronly chaperones and professions of courtly devotion. (Matthew Richardson)

The journalist might be in for some surprises then, particularly if Wuthering Heights is mentioned in any way.

If still he is not convinced, he might want to take a look at Wuthering Heights: The Wild and Wanton Edition by Beth Williamson (aka Annabella Bloom), mentioned on Publishers Weekly:

“I never thought I’d say the word ‘freemium,’” says Kate Rados, group marketing director for F+W Media. But after launching a successful three-day free e-book campaign for Eric Lamet’s Holocaust memoir A Child al Confino (Adams Media) late last month to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, she’s not only saying the “f” word but planning a new one for Valentine’s Day, Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition (Adams Media). “It’s a different genre and timing,” she says. “We’ll see how it affects the other Wild and Wanton Edition, Wuthering Heights.” (Judith Rosen)

MinnPost features journalist Don Shelby, who tells a nice anecdote about his beginning in the profession:

So, I concocted a game plan. I took to taking notes. When someone brought up the Brontë sisters, I wrote down their names – misspelled, as I remember. Bronty. I made a list of books I should have read. I made a list of 100. The next year, I read them all. By the time I had finished the list, I had a new one -- another 100. I read them. After five years, I could hold my own at parties and with Dave, without changing the subject very often.

Given that February 8th marks the birthday of Elizabeth Brontë in 1815, Les soeurs Brontë (in French) has a post on her and her sister Maria. Por Falar em Arte writes (in Portuguese) about Jane Eyre. All About Me reviews April Lindner's Jane.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights