Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” has been adapted more times than I wish to count and it looks like we can add one more time to the list as John Maybury, the helmer of the lackluster thriller The Jacket is set to direct the gothic romance for HanWay Films.
The adaptation was penned by Olivia Hetreed based on the 1847 novel described as a tempestuous love story about obsessive passion across the class divide, set on the Yorkshire Moors.
The latest version of the story was shown on MTV and starred Erika Christensen as Cate and Mike Vogel as Heath.
Maybury is currently finishing up The Edge of Love with his Jacket star Keira Knightley as well as Sienna Miller and Cillian Murphy. Edge of Love centers around Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, his wife Caitlin and the curious real-life incident in which childhood friend Vera Phillips (Knightley) and her eventual husband William Killick opened fire on the Thomas home with a machine gun and a hand grenade.
