EXCLUSIVE : Hong Chau ( The Instigators ), Alison Oliver ( Saltburn ), and Shazad Latif ( Magpie ) have landed the three remaining major roles in Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell’s buzzy Wuthering Heights adaptation for Warner Bros , MRC , and LuckyChap. Sources tell us Chau is playing Nelly Dean, the film’s chief narrator, with Oliver as Isabella Linton. Stay tuned for details on Latif’s role.
The actors come to the project after Warner Bros snapping it up in a fierce bidding war, with a commitment to a theatrical run with a big P&A spend. As previously announced, LuckyChap’s Margot Robbie and Euphoria ‘s Jacob Elordi lead the cast. Fennell revealed that Wuthering Heights would be her next project in a post on X (formerly Twitter) over the summer.
Published by Emily Brontë under the pseudonym Ellis Bell a year before her death, the classic novel is set in the Yorkshire moors and revolves around the intense and often destructive relationships between two families: the Earnshaws and the Lintons. The narrative is framed by Mr. Lockwood, a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, who learns about the tumultuous history of Wuthering Heights through Nelly Dean, a longtime servant.
The core of the book is the passionate and tragic love story between Heathcliff, an orphan adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, and Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine.
Fennell will direct from her own script and produce alongside LuckyChap, which previously collaborated with the filmmaker and MRC on her darkl.