Here’s the trailer for Emerald Fennell’s upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights. We should tell you that we laughed uproariously through the whole thing. More thoughts below.
A bold and original imagining of one of the greatest love stories of all time, Emerald Fennell’s “WUTHERING HEIGHTS” stars Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, whose forbidden passion for one another turns from romantic to intoxicating in an epic tale of lust, love and madness.
The film also stars alongside Oscar nominee Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, BAFTA winner Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell.
Fennell directs from her own screenplay, and produces alongside Oscar nominee and BAFTA award winner Josey McNamara and Robbie. Oscar nominee Tom Ackerley and Sara Desmond are executive producing.
Behind the scenes, Fennell worked with such frequent collaborators as Oscar- and BAFTA-winning director of photography Linus Sandgren, Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated production designer Suzie Davies, BAFTA-nominated editor Victoria Boydell, award-winning casting director Kharmel Cochrane and BAFTA-nominated composer Anthony Willis. Oscar and BAFTA winner Jacqueline Durran designed the costumes. Original songs by Charli XCX.
Warner Bros. Pictures and MRC Present A Lie Still & LuckyChap Entertainment Production, a film by Emerald Fennell, “WUTHERING HEIGHTS.” Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film will be in theaters nationwide on February 13, 2026, and internationally beginning 11 February.
First, this looks sumptuously beautiful and we honestly love the modern touches in the costume design and soundtrack, very much in that Marie Antoinette mode. But we laughed out loud because it all looks so hilariously misguided and we can feel thousands of literature professors around the world shrieking in outrage. Putting aside the somewhat questionable casting, we just don’t feel much chemistry or heat between these two. Then there’s the “INSPIRED BY THE GREATEST LOVE STORY” nonsense. “Inspired by” is signaling pretty loud and clear that she’s only using the title and the characters as a jumping-off point for whatever the hell she’s going to do with them. “Love story”? Please. Having said that, Fennell has a talent for making films that are beautiful to look at but maddening to unpack or think about for more than a second. We’re going to catch this for the visuals and we can’t wait for the red carpet tour to come, but it all looks incredibly silly and wrongheaded.
[Photo Credit: Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures – Video Credit: Warner Bros./YouTube]
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