Margot Robbie And Jacob Elordi Will Lead Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights Film

Out on the wily, windy moors… Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is beginning to take form. Having introduced again in July that her follow-up to final 12 months’s spicy satire Saltburn will likely be a recent tackle Emily Brontë’s literary basic, all people’s favorite British provoc-auteur has it appears discovered her Cathy and Heathcliff — and located them down beneath, no much less. Per Deadline‘s reporting, Aussie stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are set to tackle the roles of the doomed lovers in Fennell’s upcoming movie, which is presently in pre-production and eyeing a 2025 UK shoot.

For Elordi, who’ll be following in Tom Hardy, James Howson, and Ralph Fiennes‘ footsteps to convey Brontë’s Byronic hero to life right here, Wuthering Heights will likely be a fast reunion together with his Saltburn director. And given the themes of that equally Gothic story — ardour, revenge, obsession, demise — and Elordi’s tragic half to play inside it, it isn’t onerous to think about him getting his nineteenth century malcontent on for this one. As for Robbie, who was most just lately seen in final 12 months’s fuchsian fable Barbie (which, coincidentally, featured a cameo look from Fennell), this venture will comply with sizzling on the heels of her upcoming, Colin Farrell co-starring Kogonada joint A Massive Daring Lovely Journey.

For now, we do not know whether or not Fennell’s planning a straight adaptation of Brontë’s e-book, which centres across the tumultuous historical past of the titular farmhouse and the damaging romance Heathcliff and Cathy share. That being stated, when the venture was first introduced, the Promising Younger Girl filmmaker did share an illustration by Katie Buckley adorned with Heathcliff’s immortal strains, “Be with me all the time — Take any type — Drive me mad” — which bodes properly for a trustworthy tackle the once-controversial source materials. However as for all our different urgent questions — Will Elordi be pulling a Barry Keoghan and giving us a full Liverpudlian accent? Will Elordi be pulling a Barry Keoghan and getting as much as some humorous enterprise involving a gravesite? — we’ll simply have to attend patiently for solutions. And hearken to Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights on repeat for the following nevertheless many months and years forward… naturally. Heathcliff! It is me, I am Cathy, I’ve come dwelling…