Bond Girl and St Trinian’s actress Gemma Arterton is to star in yet another adaptation of Emily Bronte’s iconic novel Wuthering Heights.

The 24-year-old is to take on the tragic role of Cathy Earnshaw in the latest cinema version of the classic story.

Oscar-winning British film-maker Andrea Arnold is to direct this fifth film adaptation of the novel – the first version was shot in Haworth in 1920. Lawrence Olivier and Merle Oberon starred in the 1939 Hollywood version.

The announcement has been welcomed at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, where Emily penned her tale of heartbreak, set on the bleak moorland.

Museum director Andrew McCarthy said: “Film versions of the novels are always good news for us because it encourages visitors to the museum.”

The film’s producer Robert Bernstein said: “Andrea has previously said that the only book she would ever direct would be Wuthering Heights, because of the passionate, impossible love story at its centre and its elements of class divide.”