Emerald Fennell Teases a 'Wuthering Heights' Adaptation in the Works
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Emerald Fennell's follow-up to Saltburn is in the works.
On social media, Fennell posted a drawing of a Wuthering Heights poster, with the tagline "Be With Me Always. Take Any Form. Drive Me Mad." Underneath, it reads: "A film by Emerald Fennell."
— Emerald Fennell (@emeraldfennell) July 12, 2024
Soon after, sources told Deadline that Wuthering Heights will reunite Fennell with studio MRC, who was involved with Saltburn. There's no word yet on if Fennell will also write the adaptation, in addition to directing it. No casting details have been announced yet, either.
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Emily Bront? published Wuthering Heights in 1847, originally under her pen name Ellis Bell. The Gothic romance is set in the Yorkshire moors, and is universally regarded as one of the classics of English literature.
Fennell has spoken about her adoration of the gothic genre. "I’ve always been obsessed with the gothic," Fennell wrote in the Los Angeles Times earlier this year. “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.”
Over the decades, there have been numerous film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, including a 1939 film starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon, a 1970 one with Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall, and a 1992 adaptation starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.
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It was also adapted on film more recently, in 2011, starring James Howson and Kaya Scodelario. Bront?'s novel has also been adapted into a miniseries in 1978, starring Ken Hutchison and Kay Adshead, and a two-part drama in 2009, starring Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley.
We'll update this as soon as we learn more about Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights adaptation.
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