Bronte gets the MTV treatment

First, MTV updated “Carmen.” Now, the cable music channel is offering a modern take on “Wuthering Heights.”

Erika Christensen, who played a high school stalker in last year’s “Swimfan” and a drug-addicted teen in 2000’s “Traffic,” will star as Cate in a musical version of the Emily Bronte novel, set to begin production in May in Puerto Rico. Mike Vogel will play a homeless musician named Heath with whom Cate falls in love, and Chris Masterson (Fox’s “Malcolm in the Middle”) will play Edward, whom Cate agrees to marry instead.

From Associated Press