Natalie Portman is attached to star as Catherine Earnshaw in a new adaptation of WUTHERING HEIGHTS. The film will be based on a script by Olivia Hetreed (GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING), while there is no director attached yet. When asked for a comment, Portman said “Yeah, MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS was good, but I’m still pretty sure I can make an even more boring film and still have people worship me. This project should be a good test for that theory.” Of course, I’m an uncultured moron. When I read something, there needs to be car-chases, and I need to be able to picture how Michael Bay would shoot it, otherwise I just don’t care. I failed English Literature in high school.
Wuthering Heights is the only novel published by Emily Bronte who was at a stretch, kinda like the Tony Scott to sister Charlotte’s Ridley. The book, a classic of British literature, tells of the consuming and destructive passion between Earnshaw and Heathcliff.