Aimee Lou Wood to Lead New Series Adaptation of 'Jane Eyre'
A new adaptation of 'Jane Eyre' has been commissioned with Aimee Lou Wood as Brontë's titular heroine.
With Netflix's limited series update of Pride and Prejudice slated to air this Fall and a new feature film version of Sense & Sensibility set to hit theaters, 2026 is shaping up to be an excellent year for Jane Austen fans. But it turns out that she's not the only nineteenth-century female author having something of a moment right now: The Brontë sisters are too.
Hot on the heels of director Emerald Fennell's delightfully divisive new take on Emily's masterpiece Wuthering Heights — still raking in cash at the box office and driving discourse online — comes the news that we'll soon be getting a new take on her sister Charlotte's classic novel, Jane Eyre.
The White Lotus breakout Aimee Lou Wood has been tapped to lead a new series adaptation of the story of the eponymous young woman who overcomes a troubled childhood and falls for her brooding employer, Mr. Rochester, only to find he has some rather disturbing secrets in his attic.
(Justice for Bertha Rochester forever and ever, not sorry!!)
First published in 1847, Jane Eyre has been adapted dozens of times across a variety of formats: feature films, TV series, radio plays, an opera, and even a musical. The most recent adaptations of the novel include a 2011 film starring Mia Wasikowska (Crimson Peak) and Michael Fassbender (The Agency), as well as a 2006 BBC miniseries led by Ruth Wilson (Down Cemetery Road) and Toby Stephens (Black Sails).
No further casting details are known, and we don't really have much of an idea about how this new series will approach Brontë's story. But Succession's Miriam Battye is penning the story for Working Title, the British production company that brought us such bangers as Autumn de Wilde's Emma and the 2005 take on Pride and Prejudice, so it seems fairly safe to assume that we're all in very good hands.
Given that the project doesn't have a distributor on either side of the pond as yet, it's unclear when this series might hit our screens. However, 2027 will mark the 180th anniversary of Jane Eyre's first publication, so sometime next year seems like a pretty safe bet.
