The Academy Award-winning actress-filmmaker Emerald Fennell has added Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie and BAFTA nominee Jacob Elordi to her adaptation of Wuthering Heights . The two will essay the roles of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. MRC has joined forces with LuckyChap Entertainment to produce the upcoming feature film which is written, directed and produced by Fennell.
It is based on the classic romance novel by Emily Bronte, reports Variety. This marks LuckyChap and Fennell’s third collaboration following 2020’s Promising Young Woman (which won Fennell the Oscar for best original screenplay) and 2023’s Saltburn. SAG Awards 2024: Anna Hathaway, Margot Robbie, Pedro Pascal, Emily Blunt, and Other Celebs Make Fashionable Entries on The Red Carpet .
As per Variety , Fennell also had a featured role in LuckyChap’s $1.4 billion-grossing and Academy Award-winning Barbie movie, which Robbie produced and starred in last year. Wuthering Heights is in pre-production, gearing up for a 2025 shoot in the UK Fennell announced her plans to adapt ‘Wuthering Heights’ as her third feature in July, posting a surprise announcement to social media with a graphic that reads, “Be with me always.
Take any form. Drive me mad”, a line from the novel. At the time, all that was known about the project was that the filmmaker would reteam with MRC, the studio behind her saucy psychological thriller Saltburn.
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