Yet Another Reason to Love Ellen Page

The Lunchbox Auction is an initiative where celebrities design lunchboxes and put them up for bid.

Here's the lunchbox designed by Ellen Page:

As though I need any more reason to love this quirky girl! :)

The New Bronte Screen Avatars

According to this article, Ellen Page will be working with BBC Films for a new adaption of Jane Eyre. I kid you not.

Can anyone see Ellen Page as Jane Eyre? Her smart-ass persona in Hard Candy and Juno still sticks too closely in my mind. I don't see Ellen Page as a Victorian protagonist. I don't see Ellen Page in any period drama at all.

But then, she might surprise me. I am hoping she will surprise me, because a bad adaptation of any Bronte novel is a bad thing.

This is on top of the recent casting of Natalie Portman as Catherine in an upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights. [via]

Here's a shot of Natalie Portman as Queen Amidala. You like?

I love Ellen Page and Natalie Portman. No debate about that - but something about these star-stubbed casting of the Bronte novels make me suspicious. Perhaps some movie executives decide they will milk the works of the Bronte sisters as the next cash-cows. They probably figured they were onto a good thing with Keira and Austen. Next thing you know, they will be calling the Bronte novels - "chick-lit".

I am cynical, aren't I?

I really hope they don't mess these up.

Another Reason To Love Ellen Page