It's been a good 15 years since the last adaptation, so it should come as no surprise that a new film of Wuthering Heights is being planned. John Maybury, he of The Jacket fame, has signed on to direct.
For those of you who managed to avoid the book at GCSE English, the story concerns Heathcliff, an orphan raised alongside an aristocratic family, who makes it his mission to destroy them all after his passion for the family's daughter, Catherine Earnshaw, is frustrated by her brother. See, passion makes you crazy. Also stupid.
Maybury's just putting the finishing touches to The Edge of Love, the story of Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys), his wife (Sienna Miller) and their best friends, played by Kiera Knightley and Cillian Murphy. The script for this effort was written by Girl with a Pearl Earring's Olivia Hetreed, and is casting at the moment for an autumn start date. Given Maybury's previous form, we would be less than surprised if Kiera Knightley, his leading lady now in two films, isn't given a glance at the script for the role of Cathy (probably). And as long as he doesn't cast Cliff Richard as Heathcliff (as the 1990s musical version did) we'll be happy.
So what do we think? Everyone up for a bit of highbrow Gothic romance? Or should we leave this one to the textbooks?