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.
