The BBC Films and Focus Features flick is being directed by Cary Fukunaga, while the adapted screenplay from the novel done by Charlotte Bronte is written by Moira Buffini. Here’s a little more information below on what each of the actors will be playing within the feature.

Bell will play St. John, a clergyman who turns out to be Eyre’s cousin. Dench will play Mrs. Fairfax, the housekeeper of Thornfield Manor, who disapproves of Eyre’s engagement with Rochester. Hawkins is Mrs. Reed, Eyre’s aunt, who adopts her but abuses and neglects her until death (THR).

Wasikowska will next be seen on the big screen joining up with such big names like Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s latest imaginative film Alice in Wonderland. Fassbender was previously seen in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and just finished wrapping filming on the western themed comic book adaptation of Jonah Hex.