Natalie Portman is attached as the lead in a new film version of "Wuthering Heights."
U.K. production company Ecosse Films, whose projects include "Mrs. Brown," "Becoming Jane" and the upcoming "Brideshead Revisited," is backing the pic. HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales.
Olivia Hetreed ("Girl With a Pearl Earring") wrote the script.
Up next for Portman is a turn opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire in Jim Sheridan's "Brothers."
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I'm looking forward to see the "Wuthering Heights" movie, I read the book years ago, and it was a great story, Emily Bronte was a fine writer.
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While an appealing-looking young woman with a good head on her shoulders, she is a one-note actress with a tragically weak "English accent". There is no emotional range, just a flat monotone delivery with no impulse, immediacy or forward motion to her technique. Cathy is a role for the ages, heat and light, possessing feiry temper and voracious appetite for living. Get somebody with a pulse for heaven's sake!
I guess that's why she never gets any work. Loved her in V for Vendetta.
I am looking forward to seeing it. A remake of a true classic is never stale or boring, unless it is poorly made. I'm glad noone criticises remakes of Shakespeare's plays, or of Mozart's operas, or of Jane Austen's novels. Should we stop reading Ulysses because it has been read before? Some works are so rich and full of life, that if a remake is not well received, it can reasonabley be said to be due to a lack of quality in the remake, not in the original.
I hope that Ms. Portman and the people involved in the production of Wuthering Heights do it justice, and reintroduce it to a whole new generation.
If, on the other hand, the production company are simply looking for a way to make a quick dollar, then I will be very disappointed.
Ugh. Does this mean she'll be using that awful fake-British accent that pretty much ruined "V for Vendetta"? I think I'll pass.
I dig her
I dont know what would be worse - a remake or a sequel like wuthering heights Number 8.
its will be a miss (or maybe a bit torrent download for a very very rainy day)
Jeez the entertainment bigwigs are getting so fucking lazy they wait less and less between remakes, instead of coming up with something NEW and ORIGINAL!!!!
What is it anyway, do moviegoers now have shorter and shorter memories!!!!!
I don't care much if something is "new and original" as long as it is good. Unfortunately, remakes rarely are.
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Variety | Dade Hayes | April 11, 2008 08:39 AM