On June 12, Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell announced her next project with a tease on X, formerly known as Twitter, sharing an illustration with a quote from the Gothic romance by Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights.
Alongside the drawing by artist Katie Buckley is a quote, reading, “Be with me always. Take any form. Drive me mad.”
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. It was quite forbidden and quite undeniable.
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.
“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 will be in the Emerald Fennell Wuthering Heights adaptation?
There’s no news yet for casting.
Has production begun?
There is no news yet of when production will commence.
This post will be updated.