Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to star in Emerald Fennell's 'Wuthering Heights' film
Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell‘s anticipated “Wuthering Heights” adaptation just got buzzier with Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie and BAFTA nominee Jacob Elordi attached to star as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.
Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell‘s anticipated “Wuthering Heights” adaptation just got buzzier with Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie and BAFTA nominee Jacob Elordi attached to star as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.
MRC has tapped LuckyChap to produce the upcoming feature film — written, directed and produced by Fennell, based on the classic romance novel by Emily Brontë. 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.” 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 U.K.
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.”
With the addition of Robbie, Elordi and LuckyChap, a good many of the primary “Saltburn” players are officially reunited for the new movie. And if Fennell wanted to add one more from that roster, Barry Keoghan, who played the bathwater-slurping con man protagonist, recently told Variety he’s interested. “Anything that Emerald puts her hands on, I’m there. She’s incredible,” he said.
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