Cary Fukunaga, who received his share of praise with his feature directing debut with the Spanish language picture Sin Nombre, directs the period drama Jane Eyre, a picture headlined by Alice in Wonderland actress Mia Wasikowska. Fans of the 1943 version (starring Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles) are in for a surprise with this latest effort, claims the filmmaker.

“I wasn’t trying to be different for different’s sake,” said Fukunaga. “For me, from knowing the ‘43 version as a child and reading the novel and then the script, what I really wanted to do was achieve the tone that Charlotte Bronte had naturally written into the story.  Quite often in other adaptations, the more suspense, gloomy elements of the story are not necessarily included in the film.  The other adaptations are treated the story more as a period romance or a straight love story as she described it.  But there are sort of  supernatural scenes that are in the book or scenes that are iconic…I wanted to do a movie that had a consistent tone all the way through.”

Click on the media bar and listen to Fukunaga explain why he wanted audience members to “jump out of their seats” with his latest film.

  Jane Eyre, co-starring Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) and Jamie Bell, is now playing.

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posted by Greg Srisavasdi