Goodbye, Jane Austen. Hello, Brontes? That seems to be the call of Hollywood as the Jane Austen franchise is losing steam and Charlotte and gang are just pulling into the station.
From the piece in USA Today...
First published in the mid-19th century, Jane and Heights have never been out of print and continue to occupy prime positions in the Western literary canon, routinely studied in high-school and college literature classes. In fact, the Brontës are the inspiration for a clutch of recent and forthcoming novels, such as Charlotte and Emily by Jude Morgan, Romancing Miss Brontëby Juliet Gael, and The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Brontëby Syrie James.
"Jane can be read as a feminist manifesto or as a romantic story or as a Gothic tale, to name but a few examples. Heights is different, because the novel is so timeless in its conception of love, passion, revenge and hate that it appeals directly to the subconscious," say Manuel Del Estal and Cristina Lara, fans who run BrontëBlog and eagerly await the new movies.
Filmmakers have been drawn to the Brontës almost from the beginning of moviemaking, as early as 1910 for a silent version of Jane and 1920 for Heights. Since then, at least a dozen adaptations for film or TV in English have been made from the books, including such famous examples as the 1944 Jane with Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine and the 1939 Heights with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon.
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