On Feb 1st when it was announced that we would once again have to endure the 10,000th adaptation of Wuthering Heights, I made the prediction that Kiera Knightley would continue her corset craze and land the leading role.
I was nearly right. It’s instead The Other Corsets Girl.
The Hollywood Reporter says Natalie Portman from the corset and period movies The Other Boleyn Girl and Goya’s Ghosts will lead the film as Catherine Earnshaw one half of a passion described as “intense, elemental and yet ultimately thwarted” with the currently uncast Heathcliff.
John Maybury (The Jacket and Knightley’s upcoming period film The Edge of Love) directs from a script by the writer of The Girl With a Pearl Earring.
Portman was the best of a terrible bunch in The Other Boleyn Girl and I actually didn’t mind the 2005 adaptation of the similarly much adapted Pride & Prejudice, so maybe there is some hope here.
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This is terrible news. Portman can hardly act with her native accent, let alone whilst attempting to be English.
Actually Portman had done only contempory movies until Cold Mountain and if you count this one has only done four period movies. I haven’t seen TOBG but her accent was a slight distraction in V for Vendetta.
“Love story” my ass. These people were so sociopathically manipulative and obsessive with one another, they destroyed all those around them. And didn’t care.
They deserve each other, in the worst possible way.
May I just say that I personally witnessed Natalie Portman’s performance as Anne Boleyn on the set of The Other Boleyn Girl and she is an incredibly talented and sensitive actress. I don’t know how anyone can say she can’t act – she’s a fantastic actress and when you meet her in real life she is also a natural beauty.
I am very excited about having another Wuthering Heights movie.As much as I love Natalie, I would have prefered Keira because I think she could have conveyed Catherine’s powerful spirit better than Portman.
And to Hannah’s comment you’re an idiot! You obviously don’t get the story.
Ooh, convincing argument.