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Wuthering Heights once more? Maybury to direct new big-screen adaptation

Published on February 1, 2008

Years 2008 and 2009 are the slowly becoming the new 1939. Gulp!

Diane English remade and will release George Cukor’s 1939 film The Women and just announced today, the filmmaker behind The Jacket and the just completed The Edge of Love (starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys) will take on Wuthering Heights (the more popular version was the 1939 William Wyler adaptation).

Written by Olivia Hetreed (Girl With a Pearl Earring) the pick will be produced by Ecosse’s Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae and Screen Daily quotes John Maybury stating “a UK shoot is likely – “It’s about landscape as much as about character”.

Maybury was attached to direct Come Like Shadows (an adaptation of
Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”) no word on what the status is on that project.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).