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Emily BurackSeptember 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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Emerald Fennell's follow-up to Saltburn is just around the corner.

On social media during summer 2024, 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."

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— 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. Fennell will also write the adaptation, in addition to directing it. The film will premiere on Valentine's Day 2026.

Here's everything we know so far about Fennell's Wuthering Heights.

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are set to star.

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In September 2024, Deadline reported that Robbie and Elordi will play Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, respectively. In November, more key cast announcements were made:

Hong Chau as Nelly Dean

Alison Oliver as Isabella Linton

Shazad Latif as Edgar Linton

A year later, in September 2025, the first teaser trailer came out:

Warner Bros. will distribute the film.

After a fierce bidding war, Warner Bros. won the rights to the film. Fennell said in reaction to the news, "I’m so excited to be working with the amazing team at Warner Bros., and to once again be partnering with the brilliant MRC and LuckyChap."

"We are thrilled to partner with MRC, Emerald Fennell, and LuckyChap for this feature film adaptation of Wuthering Heights," Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group’s Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy said in a joint statement. "From the moment we were introduced to Emerald’s vision for the film, and with an incredible cast led by Margot and Jacob, we were instantly committed to forging a partnership with this team to ensure the movie was brought to theaters around the world."

MRC’s Brye Adler and Jonathan Golfman said, "From our first conversations with Emerald about Wuthering Heights, we were inspired by her vision to make something that channels the longing and heartache of the novel while adding her distinctive sensibility and beautiful aesthetic. We are thrilled to partner with Warner Brothers and our friends at LuckyChap to help bring Emerald’s film to audiences around the world."

It will be based on Brontë's novel of the same name.

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Emily Brontë 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. Brontë'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.

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The film will premiere Febraury 13, 2026.

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Fennell announced the premiere date on her Instagram:

We'll update this as soon as we learn more about Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights adaptation.

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