Focus has released their 2011 preview package and with it has come a few new images from Cary Fukunaga’s adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and An Education helmer, Lone Scherfig’s adaptation of the David Nicholls novel, One Day. Jane Eyre is set to hit theaters in select cities on March 11 and One Day is due some time 3rd quarter 2011.
We’ll begin with Jane Eyre, which stars Mia Wasikowska as the title character starring alongside Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Holliday Grainger, Sally Hawkins, Tamzin Merchant, Imogen Poots and Judi Dench.
You can get a larger look at this image plus two more, including a look at Fassbender as Edward Rochester, from Jane Eyre in our gallery by clicking here. The synopsis follows:
Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) star in the romantic drama based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, from acclaimed director Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre).
In the story, Jane Eyre flees Thornfield House, the vast and isolated estate where she works as a governess for Adele, a child under the custody of Thornfield’s brooding master, Edward Rochester. As Jane looks back upon the tumultuous events that led to her escape, from her childhood as an orphan to her education at the cruel charity school to which she was consigned, she realizes that she must return to Thornfield – to secure her own future, and to come to terms with the terrible secret Rochester had hoped to hide from her forever…
One Day stars Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Romola Garai, Jamie Sives, Rafe Spall, Ken Stott and Jodie Whittaker.
You can get a larger look at this image plus one more from One Day in our gallery by clicking here. The synopsis follows:
Adapted from the internationally praised bestselling novel, One Day charts an extraordinary relationship. Emma (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) meet on the night of their college graduation – July 15th, 1988. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground.
For the next two decades, every July 15th reveals to us how “Em” and “Dex” are faring, as their friendship ebbs and flows with the passing of the years. Through laughter and romance, heartbreak and exhilaration, they experience the grandeur of life. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along.
