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 traditional gothic novel. Here is all the pieces we all know in regards to the undertaking:
What’s Wuthering Heights about?
Ask your English instructor! JK. Revealed 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 however, lotta jealousy, lotta dying.
Who’s making the Wuthering Heights film?
Promising Younger Girl scribe Emerald Fennell will write and direct for manufacturing firm MRC, per Deadline.
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Who’s within the solid?
Jacob Elordi, who beforehand starred in Fennell’s Saltburn, leads the solid reverse Margot Robbie, who’s a producer on the undertaking.
Robbie, who additionally helped produce Saltburn and Promising Younger Girl, hinted that she could be stepping into entrance of Fennell’s digital camera in a January 2024 interview, telling Deadline that she “would like to” star in an Emerald Fennell movie and explaining, “It’s an actual act of self-control to not snatch up all of the roles along with her scripts, as a result of all of them are so scrumptious… I additionally undoubtedly by no means wish to maintain up a manufacturing. When Emerald has acquired a script able to go, it’s able to go. It’s not improvement. It’s not like, ‘Oh, in a yr and a half we’ll begin piecing this collectively.’ So, until that strains up completely, I’m not going to be the person who holds it up.”
“It additionally finally ends up being an thrilling technique to work with different actresses we love. We’ve acquired our wishlist of actresses we love, and as quickly as Emerald fingers you a script, you’re like, ‘Oh, we might get them now,’” she added. Appears like issues simply lined up this time.
When is Wuthering Heights popping out?
Per Deadline, “The movie is in pre-production gearing up for a UK shoot in 2025” – so, 2026-ish. We’ll maintain you posted with updates.
This text initially appeared on GLAMOUR (US).