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.