To the Wuthering Heights moors we go. Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie are our new Heathcliff and Cathy, the lovers in Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic gothic novel. Here’s everything we know about the project:
What’s Wuthering Heights about?
Ask your English teacher! JK. Published in 1847, the novel is a brutal and passionate love story between a Byronic anti-hero (Heathcliff) and Catherine Earnshaw, his forbidden, well-born love. No spoilers but, lotta jealousy, lotta death.
Who is making the Wuthering Heights movie?
Promising Young Woman scribe Emerald Fennell will write and direct for production company MRC, per Deadline.
Tom Ackerley, Margot Robbie, Archie Madekwe, Barry Keoghan, Emerald Fennell, Sue Kroll, Paul Rhys, Jennifer Salke, Jacob Elordi, Julie Rapaport, Josey McNamara, Carey Mulligan, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Latasha Gillespie and Anthony Willis at the premiere of “Saltburn” held at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on November 14, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty Images)Variety/Getty Images
Who is in the cast?
Jacob Elordi, who previously starred in Fennell’s Saltburn, leads the cast opposite Margot Robbie, who is a producer on the project.
Robbie, who also helped produce Saltburn and Promising Young Woman, hinted that she might be going in front of Fennell’s camera in a January 2024 interview, telling Deadline that she “would love to” star in an Emerald Fennell film and explaining, “It’s a real act of self-control not to snatch up all the roles with her scripts, because all of them are so delicious…I also definitely never want to hold up a production. When Emerald has got a script ready to go, it’s ready to go. It’s not development. It’s not like, ‘Oh, in a year and a half we’ll start piecing this together.’ So, unless that lines up perfectly, I’m not going to be the person that holds it up.”
“It also ends up being an exciting way to work with other actresses we love. We’ve got our wishlist of actresses we love, and as soon as Emerald hands you a script, you’re like, ‘Oh, we could get them now,’” she added. Sounds like things just lined up this time.
When is Wuthering Heights coming out?
Per Deadline, “The film is in pre-production gearing up for a UK shoot in 2025,” so, 2026ish.
