Emerald Fennell's 'Wuthering Heights' Gets Official Release Date


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Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell has announced her next project: a film adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

On June 12, the filmmaker behind Promising Young Woman and Saltburn posted a tease on X, formerly known as Twitter, sharing an illustration with a quote from Emily Brontë’s Gothic romance.

Alongside the drawing by the artist Katie Buckley is a quote, reading, “Be with me always. Take any form. Drive me mad.”

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Beneath it, Fennell wrote, “A film by Emerald Fennell.”

Here’s what we know about the new adaptation of the famous book so far.

What is Wuthering Heights about?

In Fennell’s hands, the material could take any number of directions. But the original story focuses on a conflict between two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their lives in the Yorkshire countryside. At the heart of the story is the passionate romance between an orphan adopted by Mr. Earnshaw named Heathcliff and Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine. Though forbidden, their love was quite undeniable.


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It seems likely that Fennell will bring to life some of the original spirit of the book. She wrote in a January 2024 post for the Los Angeles Times that she has always had an interest in this type of material.

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“I’ve always been obsessed with the gothic,” Fennell wrote. “Whether it was Edward Gorey’s children who are variously choked by peaches, sucked dry by leeches or smothered by rugs; Du Maurier’s imperiled heroines or the disturbing erotic power of Angela Carter’s fairy tales, the gothic world has always had me in its grip. It’s a genre where comedy and horror, revulsion and desire, sex and death are forever entwined, where every exchange is heavy with the threat of violence, or sex or both.”

Who is in the cast?

Margot Robbie will star as Catherine Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi will star as Heathcliff, Deadline reports. Additional castings have not yet been announced.

Robbie, through her company LuckyChap, is also producing the film.

Has production begun?

Production is slated to begin in the U.K. in 2025, according to Deadline.

Is there a release date?

The film is set to be released on Feb. 13, 2026, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Valentine’s Day date, anyone?

This post will be updated.

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