Mia Wasikowska Is "Jane Eyre"...

Click images to enlarge...

Actress Mia "Alice In Wonderland" Wasikowska will star in director Cary Fukunaga's feature adaptation of author Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre."

Alison Owen and Paul Trijbits of UK-based Ruby Films will produce in association with BBC Films and Focus Features, from a screenplay by Moira Buffini.

The new film intends to emphasize the 'sinister gothic' elements of the original story.

Published in London, England in 1847, as a 3-volume set, "Jayne Eyre" is a first-person narrative of the title character, going through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at 'Gateshead', where she is emotionally abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at 'Lowood School', where she acquires friends and role models; her time as governess of 'Thornfield Manor', where she falls in love with employer 'Edward Rochester'; her time with the 'Rivers' family at 'Moor House' and 'Morton', where her clergyman-cousin 'St John Rivers' proposes to her; and her reunion with and marriage to Rochester...