Aimee Lou Wood will lead the next Brontë adaptation

On the heels of the box office success of Wuthering Heights, a new adaptation of Jane Eyre is on the docket.

By Drew Gillis  |  February 24, 2026 | 1:34pm
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Aimee Lou Wood will lead the next Brontë adaptation

If 2026 is Emily Brontë’s year, 2027 could be shaping up quite well for her sister Charlotte. Deadline reports today that White Lotus and Sex Education star Aimee Lou Wood will lead a new TV adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel Jane Eyre. There isn’t any further casting information (or much information in general) yet available about the new adaptation, but the trade reports that Miriam Battye, who has credits with Succession and the Prime Video series Dead Ringers, will write the script. The adaptation is in the process of finding a UK broadcaster for the series, which means it’ll likely be a while before it gets to the United States. 

That being said, it does seem like a good time for more Brontë, given that Emerald Fennell’s big screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights grossed $100 million in less than two weeks. Netflix also has its adaptation from the Romantic movement—the Emma Corrin-starring Pride And Prejudice—arriving this fall. It’s also been about 20 years since the last TV adaptation of Jane Eyre, which ran on the BBC in fall 2006 and starred Ruth Wilson. Most recently, Mia Wasikowska starred as Jane in a 2011 film adaptation. 

Wood is also slated to appear as Pattie Boyd, wife of George Harrison, in Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles movies, as well as beside Angelina Jolie in Anxious People. She was nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her performance in the third season of The White Lotus, and is up for a couple of Actor Awards this weekend. 

 
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