In news sure to warm the cockles of socially-awkward high school girls everywhere, Bronte, a movie about the family of English writers is set to begin filming later this year. The Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, wrote some books that you may have heard of, including "Jane Eyre," "Wuthering Heights," and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall." Well, the last one not so much, but the first two are well known to even blocks of wood like myself.
Variety says that the movie will be directed by Charles Sturridge, who has primarily worked in television (including A&E’s Shackelton, and written by Sturridge and Angela Workman. Because the Bronte sisters are from Yorkshire, the obvious choices to play them are Michelle Williams, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Evan Rachel Wood, who have all been to New York, which is very similar.
The movie will cover the lives of the three sisters and their older brother, Branwell. While growing up in isolation they created fantasy worlds to entertain themselves. As they grew older, Branwell began abusing alcohol and opium which forced the sisters to seek their own paths. Sturridge says that he also grew up in Yorkshire and had sisters, but wouldn’t cop to an opium addiction.
