Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Mia Wasikowska will go from one famed literary heroine to another. The star of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland will star in a new version of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre . As different as the roles might sound on the surface, Variety says Jane Eyre won't be exactly like the ones you might have seen previously. “The project is a period piece but will play up...
Looking Out To Sea (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I read Jane Eyre and now I finally understand The Eyre Affair. The “original” ending in The Eyre Affair is not the real one, and the one which gets created is the real one (to some approximation: there are no time-travelling super-villains). I was getting worried as the book went on because it seemed so much [...]
IMDb News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Actress will swap 's fantasy land for the Victorian era for her next movie - she's in negotiations to star in a remake of period drama .
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Actress MIA WASIKOWSKA will swap TIM BURTON's fantasy land for the Victorian era for her next movie - she's in negotiations to star in a remake of period drama JANE...
Filmshaft.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Could Alice in Wonderland’s Mia Wasikowska be taking on another literary figure? According to Variety, the Aussie actress is tipped to star alongside Irish actor Michael Fassbender in a new adaptation of Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte’s 19th century tale has been remade countless times. So why not one more? Attached to the project is Sin Nombre helmer Cary Fukunga. There hasn’t been a big...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Book Details Paperback, 624 pages 2009, Vintage ISBN: 030745519X Synopsis Jane Eyre is an extraordinary coming-of-age story featuring one of the most independent and strong-willed female protagonists in all of literature. Poor and plain, Jane Eyre begins life as a lonely orphan in the household of her hateful aunt. Despite the oppression she endures at home, and the later...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
According to Variety (and other news outlets afterwards), it looks as ifthings are moving on with Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre : Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender are in talks to play Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester (respectively, of course!). Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender are in negotiations to star in "Sin nombre" helmer Cary Fukunaga's feature adaptation...
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... in the memory, that they look as neat as they do? Which of them is truly "well made"? Jane Eyre seemed hysterical and lopsided to its earliest readers; we now think of Middlemarch as the ultimate "proper" novel, forgetting how eccentric and strange it looked on publication, with its unwieldy and unfeminine scientific preoccupations and moral structure borrowed...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender are to lead the cast of the new Jane Eyre adaptation.
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Mia Wasikowski, Alice in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is in talks to step into the role of the plain Jane governess who finds true love with Mr. Rochester, that guy with the crazy first wife residing in the attic of his foreboding mansion Thornfield.
Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
You watch the searing, genre-busting cliche-shredding immigrant-odyssey drama Sin Nombre, by Cary Fukunaga, you don;'t think, "Gosh, when WILL he do a version of Jane Eyre for the big screen?" Not that Cary Fukunaga can't do it. It just seems...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Just last month we keyed you in on an adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's seminal novel Jane Eyre to be helmed by Cary Fukunaga, director of the buzzed about foreign film Sin Nombre, starting next year. Now Variety reports that Mia Wasikowska (Defiance) and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) are in negotiations to star in the film scripted by Moira Buffini. Numerous adaptations precede...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Classic literature fans rejoice! Amidst all the video games and toys being turned into movies, someone out there still thinks it's a good idea to make films out of classic novels. Granted, "Jane Eyre" has had a ton of onscreen adaptations to date, both in TV and film, but it’s been awhile, so it appears it’s about time for another one. INGLOURIOUS BASTERD’s...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Tortured love amid the moors.
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
RISING young star Mia Wasikowska is in negotiations to replace Ellen Page on a new adaptation of Jane Eyre . The actress would possibly join Hunger’s Michael Fassbender on Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte, according to Variety. The film would remain true to the period setting but intends to play up the gothic elements of the story. It will...
