Jane Eyre (2011) - another video preview

Here's yet another video preview for the upcoming Jane Eyre
with Wasikowska and Fassbender.

Jane Eyre (2011) - new video interviews with Mia, Michael & director

There seems to be a plethora of press for this film! Here are new interviews found on TrailerAddict.com for upcoming Jane Eyre (2011).

Michael Fassbender, Mia Wasikowska, Cary Fukunaga


Interview with Michael Fassbender

Interview with Mia Wasikowska

Interview with director Cary Fukunaga

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Michael Fassbender interview & a Mock Poster for Jane Eyre

I wanted to share this lovely mock poster for Jane Eyre, created so skillfully by kf-creations!! Thanks kiteflier for allowing me to post it here! Love it!

In Michael Fassbender's interview with Jo Ellison of Vogue, there is mention of working with Mia Wasikowska in Jane Eyre..."If Fassbender is comfortable with his apparent overnight fame, it's because it's been a long, long time in the making. Having dropped out of drama college as a 20-year-old, he spent the best part of a decade struggling to get the small breaks before landing his golden ticket."

Fassbender: “The wilderness years…well, I was working. I mean, God, there are people in the wilderness who are really in the wilderness. [My life] was very sporadic; you know - a guest spot on Holby City. Six episodes on something here or there. Working behind a bar. A lot of thinking should I go home. And I made a balls of soooo many auditions.”

“Talent is a very small percent of success - there are massively talented people out there who will never be seen on screen or on stage. People always go on about talent, but you’ve got to have the chance; meet the person who will work with you, and with the script that just suits you. Timing is massive.”

[Fassbender] may argue that his process is boring and prosaic, but Mia Wasikowska paints a different picture. "To work with someone like Michael is to have an ally and friend," she says. "From the beginning I felt fiercely supported by him. He brings with him a worldliness that informs his performances, a depth of emotion that is both raw and beautiful, and an infectiously cheeky energy that would lift the whole crew." She talks also of his "honest curiosity," a trait writ large through all his conversations, and his sense of humour. "I had the most incredible fun working with him." The feeling's mutual: "She's phenomenal," he says of the 21-year-old actress. "She taught me so much."

"This year Fassbender will star in no fewer than four films: he plays Jung opposite Viggo Mortensen’s Freud and Keira Knightly in David Cronenberg’s psychoanalytical drama A Dangerous Method; he co-stars in Steven Soderbergh’s Dublin crime caper Haywire (with Ewan McGregor); ... as Mr. Rochester, opposite Mia Wasikowska’s Jane Eyre, in a sinister re-telling of the Bronte classic, directed by Cary Fukunaga. And right now, he’s donning the latex as Ian McKellen’s former alter-ego Magneto in Vaughn’s re-booted X-Men: First Class, filming at Pinewood, and due out this summer."

Article can be found at Michael Fassbender Online
Photo by: Boo George

Jane Eyre (2011) - 2 MORE film clips including proposal scene

If Focus Features keeps up this pace, the whole film will be released before its release! Here are 2 more film clips besides the ones that appeared online yesterday.

Mia Wasikowksa & Michael Fassbender in Jane Eyre
March 11 [limited release]

Proposal scene...

Watch 2nd film clip on iVillage

2 previous film clips

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Jane Eyre (2011) - 2 new film clips

Focus Features has released 2 film clips from Jane Eyre, due in cinemas on March 11th, 2011 starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender.

The first clip shows an oh-so-tender moment between Jane and Rochester. I'm surprised that the producers are revealing that scene to us already! The second clip features Jane with the Rivers family.

2 additional film clips

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Jane Eyre (2011) - Image gallery 4

New images from upcoming Jane Eyre

with Mia Wasikowska & Michael Fassbender...
Source: Monsters & Critics

Jane Eyre (2011) - new images & info

More information can be found regarding the highly-anticipated Jane Eyre, starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender on the official site of Focus Features!

Here's an excerpt from article: A Classic Novel, A Passionate Adaptation: The Production of Jane Eyre

Producer Alison Owen, an Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner, offers, "If you say to someone, ‘What’s the definitive film version of Jane Eyre?’ no one really has an answer. Having made a number of movies from or about women’s fiction, I wondered, ‘Why not?’"

"We’re a company that is rapidly building a healthy reputation for being able to successfully convert well-known written works into big- and small-screen entertainment. Taking on Brontë seemed like the natural next step up the literary ladder," adds producer Paul Trijbits. "It’s a book we already knew had an enormous fan base, so the responsibility was also a major consideration. We wanted to move this interpretation forward into the 21st Century whilst maintaining the story’s haunting beauty."

Owen and Trijbits’ Ruby Film & Television began work on the project, which they took to one of the U.K.’s most prolific film funding organizations, BBC Films, to begin the development process.

Owen adds, "It’s timely in that Charlotte Brontë, seen as ‘the darker sister’ when compared to Emily and Anne Brontë, is being rediscovered much like Jane Austen was nearly 20 years ago.

"As a producer, I make sure to have general meetings with my favorite writers all the time; right after I’d thought about Jane Eyre, I was meeting with Moira Buffini. I happened to mention it and it turned out to be one of Moira’s favorite books, if not her favorite."

Buffini seized on the chance to adapt the book, and she and Owen quickly outlined their vision for a full-on big-screen approach to the story. They knew it had to differ from adaptations that had gone before. Buffini’s approach was to draw out the gothic elements of the story, and make them engines of the piece.

"Moira wanted to make it dark and spooky on an intensely romantic journey. That was her take, which I wholly supported," recalls Owen.

Further, as the novel would be adapted into a two-hour movie, Owen found that "what was brilliant about the script Moira delivered was the structure she’d chosen. The book is quite difficult in some ways to translate to film. Everyone remembers the sections of Jane’s childhood, of Jane being a governess at Thornfield and falling in love with Mr. Rochester, and then bolting.

Sally Hawkins as Mrs. Reed

"But from then on, there’s another set of characters introduced – the Rivers family. You can do that in a novel, but it’s harder to do two-thirds of the way through a movie. Moira’s stroke of genius was that instead of abbreviating or losing this part entirely, which previous adaptations have done, she put it right at the beginning – and turned the novel’s early sections of the young Jane at Lowood and her initial days at Thornfield into flashbacks. Therefore, midway through the third act, we catch up with Jane and you get the emotional punch of being in real time at the end as she comes to terms with everyone and everything."

Jamie Bell as St. John Rivers

Buffini comments, "I hope this will please the many who love the book; while we may not be faithful to the original structure, our version does include every key stage of Jane’s story. Giving the complete picture was also meant to help the uninitiated – those coming to this story for the first time – to understand and identify with Jane all the more."

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Judi Dench as Mrs. Fairfax

Imogene Poots as Blanche Ingram

Photos: Laurie Sparham