The director of the latest version of Jane Eyre to hit the silver screen was in West Yorkshire last night for a special screening of the film.

Cary Fukunaga was at the Bronte Parsonage in Haworth, home to Charlotte Bronte, the famous author of Jane Eyre, for a first showing in the United Kingdom of his adaptation of the book.

And the 34-year-old from California said he was pleased how his version of the classic story had made it to screen.

The film, starring Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre and Michael Fassbender as Edward Rochester, has received favourable responses in America, where it was released earlier this year.

And Mr Fukunaga said he was pleased to be back at Haworth having visited in late 2009 to try to get a sense of Charlotte Bronte before filming began.

He said it enabled him to realise the “space” of the world Charlotte Bronte and her famous siblings, Emily and Anne, inhabited when the book was published in 1847.

“It’s inevitable the film is going to be compared to others,” he said.

“But I hadn’t realised there had been so many versions. I’m confident we’ve made a version that hasn’t been done before.”

The film goes on general release across the UK on Friday with special screenings on Wednesday at the Picture House cinema in Keighley.