Jane Eyre News

Oh, this is some good stuff. I was a little surprised recently when the announcement came down that Cary Fukunaga , who directed the very excellent Sin Nombre , would adapt Charlotte Bronte 's classic novel Jane Eyre as his next film.

I was looking forward to seeing Ellen Page as Jane Eyre, wondering how she would handle the role of the poor governess from the wrong side of the moors.

Back in 2005, the BBC may have set too high a standard for its period pieces with its five-star production of Charles Dickens' Bleak House, starring the magnificent Gillian Anderson.

This is a bit unexpected; there have been a lot of possible next projects in the works for Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga .

TV director Susanna White has swapped corsets for camouflage to helm Wire creator David Simon's Iraq war drama.

In a special screening directly addressed to kids, today, September 26, at the British Film Institute: Jane Eyre by Robert Stevenson With Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine Sat 26 Sep 13:50 NFT2 Bronte's classic novel is given the full Hollywood treatment in this moody, atmospheric production.

The Book Depository blog has provided the shortlist for a competition being run by Mills & Boon and the Times Cheltenham Literary festival to identify "the nation's favourite literary hero" . Despite hating the idea of the "nation's" favourite anything, I'm quite intrigued by the concept of a favourite literary hero.

Throughout time, the world's most passionate couples in fact and fiction have pursued their romance against a European backdrop .

The Bronte month in BBC Radio 7 continues this week with Jane Eyre 1994 and Agnes Grey 1997: Jane Eyre With Ciaran Hinds, Sophie Thompson, Angela Down and John Duttine.

Not very much to report today. Just redheads in The Telegraph , and our last Rochester gets a mention: And male redheads are an increasingly distinguished tribe, not least the incredibly sexy Damian Lewis and Toby Stephens .

BBC Worldwide is co-producing a new "Emma" miniseries and a sequel to Judi Dench starrer "Cranford" for PBS' "Masterpiece Classic" in early 2010.

Dynamic actress Samantha Morton so convincingly played American, Irish, Scottish, and even mute, that fans of her international independent films may not have even known that she hailed from Northern England.

Lilian Pizzichini's biography of Jean Rhys: The Blue Hour. A Portrait of Jean Rhys is reviewed by the Daily Mail : Had she been alive today Jean Rhys would certainly have been diagnosed with a personality disorder.

Beginning today, the Carolina Theatre in Durham will hit audiences with a weeklong double shot of the definitive gangster saga.