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Ive seen every movie based onJane Eyre, and Ive read the book many times.
They have to do with marrying well, and those sorts of concerns.
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So the obstacles and barriers in a contemporary setting needed to be a little bit different.
Like strong, dark…Yeah.
Its very much like, Jane Eyre comes to New York, andthatswhat intimidates her.
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She has a sad backstory, as Jane Eyre does in the book.
I always forget about that!I know!
People think of it as just being the Jane-Rochester love story, and the movies usually concentrate on that.
So in this case, hes not just a tortured, wealthy man.
Hes somebody with an actual dangerous history, who is in peril.
It lives in the visuals and the emotion, and the spaces.
I had to wait a little bit for Ramon because hes so incredibly in demand.
Hes like a rock star among the comic book illustrator guys.
If you ever go to a Comic Con with Ramon, its like walking around with the Beatles.
I swoon every time I get them.
Is the book already finished then?No, hes still working on some of it.
Ive seen the whole book in rough, and he and I did some revisions.
Theres an additional bad guy in the story now, which is very cool.
Theres some new relationships, definitely new tweaks.
Jane is an art student in this version she comes to the city to be an art student.
Hes finishing it up and itll be out in the fall.
Was the art student aspect inspired by her drawings in the book?Yes.
I tried to draw things from the book and kind of transpose them a bit.
Its also inspired by my love of Hitchcock movies likeRebeccaandSuspicion.That sort of high-Goth tone.
They capture this isolation and sadness and romantic yearning.
Its never a skipping-through-the-daisies love affair.
The Brontes had a pretty sad life, and their sisters died [in childhood].
So I think thats why they had this great melancholy.
So this book preserves all that but transposes it into a modern setting.
Im really interested to see how youre going to take on the woman in the attic.
I tried to analyze what had appealed to me.
I think that is a very core fantasy of the book.
