24 words a second: Adapting Novels for the Big Screen

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It’s a concept that directors and audiences alike have been battling with since the birth of cinema; how to convert novels to screen? From the 1930’s classic interpretation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind, to the release of Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John le Carré’s spy novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy just last week, [...]

Jane Eyre Competiton: Win A Limited Edition Writing Set & Book

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To celebrate the September 9th release of Jane Eyre in cinemas nationwide, we have an exclusive Jane Eyre writing set to giveaway to a lucky reader, and 4 copies of the book to competition runners-up. In a bold new feature version of Jane Eyre, director Cary Joji Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) and screenwriter Moira Buffini (Tamara [...]

Jane Eyre Review

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Jane Eyre is the story of a young orphaned girl who is brought up by her aunt, living among cousins who beat and steal from her. She is treated like an outcast, punished severely, and eventually sent away to a strict boarding school. It is there Jane meets here very first friend, but circumstances separate [...]

Interview: Cary Fukunaga on Jane Eyre

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2009′s Sin Nombre was an audacious debut from Cary Fukunaga and won the director great acclaim and marked him as a man to watch. It was a with a measure of surprise and excitement that we greeted the news that his next film was to be an adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic Jane Eyre, a [...]

Sin Nombre’s Cary Fukunaga Next Directorial Outing will be Spaceless

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News have come thorough via The Hollywood Reporter that Sin Nombre director Cary Fukunaga (currently winning plaudits for his adaptation of the Emily Bronte classic, Jane Eyre) will be working within a very different genre for his next feature. The American filmmaker will direct sci-fi thriller, Spaceless, for Universal, and will also rewrite the screenplay [...]

New Jane Eyre Clip – Michael Fassbender asks if He is Handsome!

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Focus Features International have just sent over this new clip from their new movie Jane Eyre where the awesome Michael Fassbender has to ask the question ‘Do you find me handsome!’ Unfortunately he doesn’t get the answer that he’s looking for although. Directed by Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre), Jane Eyre is based on the acclaimed novel of the [...]

Official UK Trailer and Poster for Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre UK Poster

Focus Features International have released the official UK trailer and poster for Jane Eyre. Directed by Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre), Jane Eyre is based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Charlotte Brontë, and stars Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins, Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, Sophie Ward and Craig Roberts. After a bleak childhood, Jane [...]

Cary Fukunaga to Direct No Blood, No Guts, No Glory

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Award-winning director Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) has signed on to write and direct civil war heist film No Blood, No Guts, No Glory. Fukunaga will co-write the script alongside Chase Palmer (Number 13), whose original draft found itself on the 2009 Black List. No Blood, No Guts, No Glory follows a spy and twenty Union soldiers in disguise who [...]

New Clip from Jane Eyre

Apple have released a new clip from the new Focus Features movie retelling the classic story of Jane Eyre. Cary Fukunaga directs a fabulous ensemble cast which includes Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judy Dench, Sally Hawkins and Jamie Bell. Synopsips: Mia Wasikowska (“Alice in Wonderland”) and Michael Fassbender (“Inglourious Basterds”) star in the romantic drama [...]

New Images from Jane Eyre Escape From the Attic

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Director Cary Fukanaga has chosen a very different kind of film to follow his feature debut Sin Nombre, and in taking on a literary classic Fukanaga has wisely chosen some of the most impressive new actors to star in Jane Eyre. Posters have come and gone, as has a decent trailer, and now new images [...]

Jane Eyre Official Trailer

Only a few days after unveiling the poster and official synopsis for Jane Eyre, Focus Features have released the first official trailer via Yahoo! Movies. Directed by Cary Fukunaga, Jane Eyre stars Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Judi Dench, Jamie Bell, Sally Hawkins, Imogen Poots and Tamzin Merchant. Based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, the romantic [...]

Poster, Images and Synopsis for Jane Eyre

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Focus Features have unveiled the first poster, images and official synopsis for Jane Eyre on the film’s Facebook page. Jane Eyre, directed by Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre), stars Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins, Jane Wisener, Sophie Ward and Tamzin Merchant. Synopsis: Based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, the [...]

Blu-ray Review: Sin Nombre

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Cary Fukunaga’s film Sin Nombre can sit comfortably alongside City of God as a powerful and bleakly artistic take on the compact chaos of street gangs and the moral erosion of poverty and the violence which ensues. Two stories clash in a hopeless and violent world as Casper, a member of a brutal Mexican street [...]

Fassbender and Wasikowska To Star in Jane Eyre?

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Following his success with Sin Nombre Cary Fukunaga is to adapt Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre from a script by Moira Buffini, and today rumours blossomed that soon-to-be Alice In Wonderland MiaWasikowska is in talks to play the eponymous heroine. Jane Eyre has been adapted many times in recent years with actresses such as Samantha Morton [...]