The Daily Mail says that Maybury is no longer director for Wuthering Heights. Here's a link to discussion about the news on BronteBlog:
http://bronteblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/john-maybury-quits-wuthering-he ights.html
If John Maybury is indeed no longer director, any ideas as to who would be the ideal replacement?
Yeah. I posted this on the Wuthering Heights 2010 board. I was never over enthused with Maybury, so i'm okay with it. Erm.. I'd love for Jane Campion or Frances Ford Copella to do a Wuthering Heights, but i don't think they'd be a replacement for this production.
shareSounds like they need to rewrite the script.
shareI'm just going to look forward to the ITV one.
shareSound Weird
But I would quite like Laurence Dunmoore (The Director of the Liberteen) or Neil Marshal (Director of the Descent and Dog Soliders). To have a crack a Wurthering Heights, even Gullomo De Torro would be good after pan labyrinth.
Both Neil Marshal Laurence Dunmoore have a strong visual style, also
Neil Marshall has Strong use of the British Landscape and in The Descent has used strong female protagonist.
I want in the next Wurthering Heights a strong psychological present, and the build up to the love story to be full of psychological surpences, using dark spacers.
I think previous directors make the Love story to soppy. I think of it more of a bit of the beauty and the beast relationship they love each other more out of understanding and compassion, than lust. I want Heathcliff to be more monster than man.
Other production seem to fluff up the landscape and don't use the foreboding moors above Bradford Yorkshire, (which are notorious in there own right for many a moor murder) with their dark purple tones from the millstone grit and heather, which seem to reflex the dark and brooding heathcliff far more than the rolling fluffy hills of other parts of Yorkshire.
I do think Newcastle born marshal has a good senses of place, Wurthering heights unlike the Jane Austin and Dickens in a very visual book with strong characters. Characters to me which seem to be reflected in the like of Kes and
even Shane meadows than the work of Jane Austin.