Andrea Arnold to climb Wuthering Heights
Andrea Arnold to climb Wuthering Heights
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By Matt Hallam. |  |
Wednesday, 20, Jan 2010 09:28
By Lewis Bazley.
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold has been signed up to direct the upcoming film adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
The project had seemed in limbo, with Edge of Love director John Maybury quitting the production last summer and Peter Webber deciding against involvement in December.
The casting of doomed heroine Cathy has been equally transitory, with Natalie Cornish, Abbie Cornish and Gemma Arterton all said to be attached at various points.
According to Variety, however, Fish Tank director Andrea Arnold has now signed with Ecosse Films to bring Olivia Hetreed's adaptation of Bronte's novel to the screen.
Production on the tale of the passionate romance between Cathy and the temperamental Heathcliff could begin as early as this spring, it is believed.
"Andrea has previously said that the only book she would ever direct would be Wuthering Heights' because of the passionate, impossible love story at its centre and its elements of class divide," producer Robert Bernstein told Variety.
"It's a very lucky coincidence for us that we've found each other."
Though no casting announcements have been made, it is said Arnold will emphasise "the youthful, teenage aspect of the protagonists in the original source material".