Starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, Wuthering Heights is director Emerald Fennell’s randy interpretation of Emily Brontë’s gothic romance. Here’s the suggestive first trailer: If one thing’s made clear from the first trailer for writer-director Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, it’s that it won’t handle its source novel like a sacred text. Nor will it be ... Wuthering Heights trailer | Margot Robbie kneads dough, needs Jacob Elordi
Starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, Wuthering Heights is director Emerald Fennell’s randy interpretation of Emily Brontë’s gothic romance. Here’s the suggestive first trailer:
If one thing’s made clear from the first trailer for writer-director Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, it’s that it won’t handle its source novel like a sacred text. Nor will it be some shy and retiring, Merchant Ivory period piece: with Charli xcx pounding away on the soundtrack, and Margot Robbie pounding away at some homemade dough, it’s positively stuffed with suggestive imagery.
Rustic breadmaking gives way to the rear of a sweaty male torso; a finger prods and probes at the maw of a dead fish. It’s all stylish stuff, but then we’d expect nothing less from the award-winning filmmaker behind the similarly handsome Promising Young Woman and Saltburn. The latter, in particular, overcame an initially slow start and turned into one of the most talked-about films of 2023 once it emerged on Prime Video. Wuthering Heights is sure to spark a similar amount of online debate, not least among fans of Emily Brontë’s original gothic romance.
Whether you think it looks like a cool modernisation of a familiar novel, or like Tarsem Singh directing a Jackie Collins novel, there’s no denying that Fennell’s boldly made the story her own. Robbie stars as Catherine Earnshaw, whose love for the mysterious Heathcliff (Elordi) is constantly strained by the bounds of class and wealth. The original novel was structured so that the lovers’ tragic, often disturbing tale gradually emerged a layer at a time; it’s unclear whether Fennell will jettison that, along with the more subtle digs the novelist made at the cruelty of the British class system and prejudice in general.
It all looks lavishly mounted, though, with sets and lighting that would probably win Guillermo del Toro’s approval.
Wuthering Heights is due for release in UK cinemas on the 14th February 2026.
