I’ve been to the precise Wuthering Heights.
I traveled by aircraft and prepare and bus and foot, midway throughout the globe, simply to go to the setting of considered one of my favorite books, which I’ve learn and underlined and written in additional instances than I can rely.
However the diploma of my love for this masterpiece Emily Brontë gave us (earlier than dying of tuberculosis on the age of 30) doesn’t translate right into a rabid safety of its supply materials. I’m not outraged that Saltburn’s Emerald Fennell is taking a lower than utterly trustworthy interpretation for her upcoming remake, particularly understanding that franchises like The Twilight Saga and 50 Shades Of Gray obtained their begins as fanfic impressed by the novel’s epic love triangle between Cathy, Heathcliff, and Edgar Linton.
Individuals who drooled over Stephanie Meier’s vampires and werewolves, or hid E.L. James’ BDSM 101 novel beneath a distinct e-book jacket for his or her morning commute studying could have had no thought of the connection to Wuthering Heights, however Fennell is paying clear tribute to the unique, in addition to the attractive fanfic loop its impressed, by giving us a model that appears like an 80s or 90s smut novel with Fabio on the duvet, however with decidedly fashionable cinematography and music by Charli xcx. Slated for a Valentine’s Day 2026 launch, there’s a first-rate alternative right here to spin-off “Brat Summer time” into “Wench Winter” for the corset-filled occasion.
Australians Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi will carry literature’s most poisonous duo to life as Cathy and Heathcliff, and Fennell’s teaser trailer is as sexually charged as you’d anticipate her Saltburn comply with as much as be. Bread dough and egg yolks have by no means been this X-rated, and heaving chests and horse bridles counsel we’ll see a lot of scenes that have been not a part of the unique textual content. I couldn’t be extra right here for it.
However for those who do know something in regards to the e-book and the shock it brought about for its darkish themes and digging up of graves, this story turns into so clearly excellent for Fennell to sort out, and I feel Brontë herself could be happy that somebody who deeply understands the identical psychological and financial themes that impressed her virtually 180 years in the past is reinterpreting her story for a brand new viewers and persevering with to push boundaries to shock and awe the subsequent era.
Take a look at the visible and auditory feast of a teaser trailer for your self beneath! I promise it is going to have you ever “wuthering” in additional methods than one…
