Deadline reports that Hong Chau, Alison Oliver and Shazad Latif join Emerald Fennell's
Wuthering Heights.
Hong Chau (The Instigators), Alison Oliver (Saltburn), and Shazad Latif (Magpie, Star Trek: Discovery) have landed the three remaining major roles in Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell’s buzzy Wuthering Heights adaptation for Warner Bros, MRC, and LuckyChap.
Sources tell us Chau is playing Nelly Dean, the film’s chief narrator, with Oliver as Isabella Linton. Shazad plays Edgar Linton, a wealthy, aristocratic man who marries Catherine Earnshaw (Margot Robbie). The actors come to the project after Warner Bros snapping it up in a fierce bidding war, with a commitment to a theatrical run with a big P&A spend. As previously announced, LuckyChap’s Robbie and Euphoria‘s Jacob Elordi lead the cast. (Matt Grobar)
We wonder: are we positive that Jacob Elordi is playing Heathcliff and Shazad Latif is playing Edgar? They look more suited to each other's role.
A contributor to
HerCampus continues discussing the casting.
Keighley News has an article on the shameful auction of Mary Taylor's Red House.
A historic property that has Brontë connections goes under the hammer next month – with a £650,000-plus guide price.
Kirklees Council is selling the Grade II*-listed former Red House Museum, at Gomersal.
Dating back to 1660, the house and grounds are associated with Luddite activities and the Taylor family, particularly Mary, a radical feminist and friend of Charlotte Brontë.
Charlotte was a regular guest at the property in the 1830s and gave it a starring role as Briarmains in her novel, Shirley.
Bought by Spenborough Council in 1969, the building served as a museum from the early 1970s until it was closed to the public in 2016.
The property was then earmarked for a wedding venue and holiday accommodation, but the plan fell through.
Kirklees Council announced last year it was looking to dispose of several assets when it was facing a £47m budget deficit, and was hoping to bring in a minimum of £4 million from the various sales.
Bought by Spenborough Council in 1969, the building served as a museum from the early 1970s until it was closed to the public in 2016.
The property was then earmarked for a wedding venue and holiday accommodation, but the plan fell through.
Kirklees Council announced last year it was looking to dispose of several assets when it was facing a £47m budget deficit, and was hoping to bring in a minimum of £4 million from the various sales.
“It would make an outstanding family home, as it must have been for generations of the Taylor family, and contains some really exceptional original features, including stained glass windows in the dining room that are described by Charlotte Brontë in Shirley.”
He added: “Not surprisingly we have had a great deal of interest from would-be buyers.”
Charitable organisation Red House Yorkshire Heritage Trust was formed in November 2019 in the hope of saving the Red House site and its buildings so they could benefit the local community.
Again, no, the stained glass windows belonged to the Brontë Society and have been thankfully safeguarded by them for years now.
To be honest, the selling off of public heritage is what should have people going to X to complain and not an artist's decision for her own work.
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