| If Emily Bronte was alive today she would be a Steinman fan |
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Ali 09:47 pm UTC 04/12/08 |
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Wuthering Heights - Tremorlor 07:54 pm UTC 04/12/08 |
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Some people are just born at completely the wrong point in history. (Tuberculosis, her sister setting fire to her second novel because it was too racey etc. etc. etc.)
Ali
> Not exactly relevant in Steinman news, but WH:C gets
> mentioned.
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> http://www.darkhorizons.com/news08/080411h.php
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> Natalie Portman will star as Catherine Earnshaw in a new
> big screen adaptation of Emily Bronte's "Wuthering
> Heights" for Ecosse Films and Hanway Films reports the
> trades.
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> Bronte's only novel, 'Heights' is a true classic of
> English literature. The story tells of the intense and yet
> ultimately thwarted passion between Earnshaw and
> Heathcliff.
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> Olivia Hetreed ("Girl With a Pearl Earring") will adapt
> the script and John Maybury will direct, but no start date
> has been set.
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> Portman beat out both Keira Knightley and Lindsay Lohan
> who were previously attached to star. Ecosse and Hanway
> previousl re-teamed on the forthcoming "Brideshead
> Revisited" opening late July.
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> The book has been adapted numerous times before, most
> memorably in a 1939 film with Laurence Olivier and David
> Niven which only portrayed events in half of the novel.
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> Timothy Dalton starred in a 1970's version, whilst Ralph
> Fiennes and Juliette Binoche had early career success in a
> 1992 version. The most recent was an MTV production with
> Mike Vogel and Erika Christensen in 2003.
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