Oscar winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (“Saltburn,” “Promising Young Woman”) has set the leads of her new adaptation of Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights”. Australians Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are attached to star as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff in the film which will be written, directed and produced by Fennell. Robbie’s LuckyChap production company label produced those two aforementioned Fennell-directed films, whilst Fennell herself appeared in the Robbie produced “Barbie” film.
MRC, who produced “Saltburn,” is also back. The book, the only published work by Brontë, concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws’ foster son Heathcliff. Widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, the book at the time was controversial for its challenges to Victorian morality, religion, and the class system along with its depiction of domestic abuse.
It has inspired many screen adaptations including William Wyler’s 1939 film with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon, Robert Fuest’s 1970 movie with Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall, Peter Kosminsky’s 1992 film with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, a 2009 film with Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley, and a 2011 film with James Howson and Kaya Scodelario. Pre-production on this version is underway and gearing up for a 2025 shoot in the U.K.
Robbie has recently been filming Kogonada’s “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” whilst Elordi has been at work on Justin Kurzel’s “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” and Guillermo Del Toro’s “Frankenstein”. Source:.
