Out on the wily, windy moors (or, to be more specific, the Yorkshire Dales) Emerald Fennell has been tough at work bringing her take on Emily Brontë
Out on the wily, windy moors (or, to be more specific, the Yorkshire Dales) Emerald Fennell has been tough at work bringing her take on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights to life. But now, with the cameras having stopped rolling on the provoc-auteur’s follow-up to piquant satire Saltburn and the movie’s wickedly slated Valentine’s release inching ever closer, we are finally getting our first proper look at what Fennell and her Cathy and Heathcliff — Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi — have been cooking up. And if the first trailer for her Gothic romance is anything to go by, Fennell’s about to make Saltburn look like Downton Abbey. Check it out below;
All-new, original Charli XCX bangers on the soundtrack. Sweaty palms. Finger sucking. Whips cracking. Folk crawling about on all fours. Some innuendous business involving egg yolk. This sure ain’t your ma’s Wuthering Heights, and the quotation marks that have been slapped around the title treatment for Fennell’s film certainly feel well placed on present evidence. Sure, the themes of Bronte’s book — passion, revenge, obsession — all simmer away in this vibes-heavy, plot-light first teaser, but the salacious edge and erotic charge of this Wuthering Heights is distinctly and devilishly Emerald Fennell’s own. How exactly the filmmaker is planning to adapt and/or reimagine the tempestuous — and tragic — love affair between Elordi’s Heathcliff and Robbie’s Cathy here very much remains to be seen at this stage. Even without an official synopsis though, the low-key ominousness of Elordi’s “Do you want me to stop?” and the submissive “No” it’s met with from Robbie at the end of this trailer certainly don’t suggest there’ll be too many cheerful endings to be found here. *Ahem*
As well as Elordi and Robbie generating enough heat to sultry a tiny nation, this trailer also gives us a glimpse at the impressive ensemble Fennell’s put together for this one, including Adolescence breakout Owen Cooper as a juvenile Heathcliff, Hong Chau as Nelly Dean, Alison Oliver as Isabella Linton, Shazad Latif as Edgar Linton, and House Of The Dragon star Ewan Mitchell. We can look forward to seeing how they all come together — or, per the film’s tagline, come undone — when Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights journeys from the moors to the multiplex on 13 February, 2026.
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