It was with great interest that I heard about not just one, but two new Bronte films currently in production!
BBC Films are revisiting Jane Eyre, with Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) as the heroine, while Film Four are planning a remake of Wuthering Heights.
I've always had an interest in the tragic Bronte sisters since visiting the pretty Haworth parsonage where they lived and experiencing the bleak and windswept moors that inspired them. Both tales could certainly be described as gloomy, almost foreboding. The opening chapters of Jane Eyre certainly set the atmosphere. I never finished Wuthering Heights as a child. It's a far cry from the almost sickly sweetness and light of Jane Austen. As much as I am a 'Janeite', I can only admit that there has most definately been an Austen overload in the past few years. I think it's interesting how the fun and frivolity of Austen suited the mood of a care free modern society, but as recession and money worries loom over us, these darker tales of the mid-nineteenth century are the order of the day.
You can read more about the films and see a sneaky peak of the new Jane Eyre at http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article7106879.ece
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