The Playlist plays Cary Fukunaga

The Playlist has a great interview with Jane Eyre's director Cary Fukunaga about how he came to direct Jane Eyre and what made the project special to him. They ask him a lot about the gothic qualities in the film:

That's present in the novel, I feel like. I think the Bob Stevenson version is one of the rarer versions that actually does really stay more in that pre-Gothic in that, it's at the earlier end of the Victorian era. It has that sort of foreboding isolation, that dense fog, what's beyond the moors in this isolated house, what's beyond this tapestry in this wall, those creaky noises upstairs. It has that feeling in the book. And we just definitely wanted to do that. The question then becomes, how far do you go into the world of horror, or how much do you stay in the world of period drama/romance, while maintaining that tone.