WUTHERING HEIGHTS, again? Probably with Kiera too...

So they're resurrecting Emily Bronte's classic novel "Wuthering Heights" for yet another big screen adaptation, because lord knows we haven't seen this tale adapted before. Not like 100 times maybe. Variety say John Maybury will direct the movie for Indie company Ecosse Films, the studio behind the flop corset movie BECOMING JANE. The script comes from Olivia Hetreed (THE GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARRING).

Maybury has just wrapped on the romantic period drama THE EDGE OF LOVE with Cillian Murphy, Kiera Knightley and Sienna Miller and it's not much of a stretch to think that he has been talking to Knightley about this project on set. Hey, it may have ever been her suggestion to do the movie. Knightley also starred in Maybury's 2005 thriller THE JACKET, and has also starred in the adaptation of another literary classic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and I'll be shocked if she doesn't end up with the leading role here. "Wuthering Heights" is a love story set in a class divide in the Yorkshire Moors and has been filmed over a dozen times. The most famous adaptation probably being the late 1930's movie directed by the great William Wyler starring Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon and David Niven which won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year and heralded the great cinematography of Greg Toland. The most recent famous adaptation is probably the 1992 film version starring Juliette Binoche in dual roles and Ralph Fiennes, which was constantly on replay in my house during the mid 90's, wether I liked it or not. These movies are never all that popular in the U.S. but they ALWAYS do well in the U.K, and after PRIDE AND PREJUDICE taking $121 million worldwide from a $38 million budget, this development really shouldn't surprise us at all.