(FROM HOLLYWOOD REPORTER) ? Natalie Portman will star as romantic fiction icon Catherine Earnshaw in a new movie adaptation of Emily Bronte’s classic 19th century novel Wuthering Heights. The story is about Catherine and her adopted brother Heathcliff’s passionate and ultimately doomed love for one another. Portman will play the character perhaps most famously played by Merle Oberon in the 1939 screen version, which starred Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff. John Maybury (Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon) is directing. No start date has been set. Portman most recently starred The Other Boleyn Girl with Scarlett Johansson and Eric Bana and next stars opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire in Jim Sheridan’s Brothers. (Hollywood Reporter)
News
Natalie Portman in new ''Wuthering Heights''
Top Stories
- 'The Royals' gets season 3 premiere date, shirtless Prince Liam pics
- Starz renews 'Survivor's Remorse' for season 4
- Gerard Butler brings 'depth and heart' to 'The Headhunter’s Calling'
- Casey Affleck comes home in emotional 'Manchester by the Sea' trailer
- DJ Khaled to host MTV VMA red carpet pre-show
- Lou Pearlman's cause of death revealed
- WATCH: Teen boys keep big secret in 'Eyewitness' — exclusive trailer
Photo Galleries
-
Flashback to the 2001 'Summer Catch' Premiere
-
Fall Movie Preview 2016: 'Fantastic Beasts,' 'Rogue One,' and 76 Other Films
-
Flashback to the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards
-
See All of EW's Fall Movie Preview Covers
-
Poppy Awards 2016: Your comedy nominees are...
-
Poppy Awards 2016: Your drama nominees are...