We had previously reported that Academy Award-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell is set to adapt author Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights novel. Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi have now onboarded the cast of the film.
While Robbie is set to star as Catherine Earnshaw, Elordi will play Heathcliff. Fennel will be writing, directing as well as producing the adaptation of the classic novel which is currently in pre-production and gearing up to go on floors in the UK in 2025. Plot details and a release date for the film are currently undisclosed.
Published in 1847, the original story follows two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons and the turbulent relationship they have with the Earnshaws’ foster son, Heathcliff. There have been many adaptations of Wuthering Heights, including William Wyler’s 1939 film and Andrea Arnold’s 2011 version. Most recently, actor-director Bryan Ferriter made a film in 2022 of the same name.
Fennell, who won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Promising Young Woman in 2021, last worked as a writer-director in Saltburn which also starred Elordi. She also wrote the screenplay for the Kevin Hart starrer Lift. She is also on board the John Wick spinoff Ballerina as one of the two screenwriters.
Besides starring, Margot will also produce the film via LuckyChap, marking the production house’s third collaboration with Fennell after Promising Young Woman and Saltburn. Additionally, MRC will also produce the film.
After earning critical acclaim for her performance in Greta Gerwig's Barbie which earned eight Oscar nominations, she will be seen next in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, a fantasy that sees her alongside Colin Farrell.
Elordi, known for his role in Euphoria, recently starred alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones in On Swift Horses. He played the iconic Elvis Presley in last year’s Priscilla. Up next, he has The Narrow Road to the Deep North, directed by Justin Kurzell and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.
