…apparently Ellen Page has been signed to star in a new film version of Jane Eyre:
BBC Films has signed the 20-year-old Halifax native in the latest adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte novel, with Page in the lead role.
The movie, scripted by Moira Buffini, still doesn’t have a director or lead actor.
Page has become a Hollywood darling of sorts after being nominated for an Academy Award for her turn as a wise-cracking pregnant teen in the comedy Juno. The movie captured a best screenplay Oscar for Diablo Cody.
This would mark Page’s first period piece. Bronte’s 1847 book chronicles the melodramatic love story of a governess and her employer, Edward Rochester.
It’s a piece of literature that has become a popular screen adaptation, with more than a dozen productions created for both television and cinema.
Any nominations for her leading man? Colin Firth, anyone?
I just hope they keep a lot more of Bronte’s dialogue than adaptations of the novel usually do. It’s much more crackling than the stuff the screenwriters usually come up with.
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