Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell‘s anticipated “Wuthering Heights” adaptation simply acquired buzzier with Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie and BAFTA nominee Jacob Elordi connected to star as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.
MRC has tapped LuckyChap to provide the upcoming characteristic movie — written, directed and produced by Fennell, primarily based on the basic romance novel by Emily Brontë. This marks LuckyChap and Fennell’s third collaboration following 2020’s “Promising Younger Girl” (which received Fennell the Oscar for finest unique screenplay) and 2023’s “Saltburn.” Fennell additionally had a featured function in LuckyChap’s $1.4 billion-grossing and Academy Award-winning “Barbie” film, which Robbie produced and starred in final yr.
“Wuthering Heights” is in pre-production, gearing up for a 2025 shoot within the U.Ok.
Fennell introduced her plans to adapt “Wuthering Heights” as her third characteristic in July, posting a shock announcement to social media with a graphic that reads, “Be with me all the time — Take any kind — Drive me mad,” a line from the novel. On the time, all that was identified concerning the venture was that the filmmaker would reteam with MRC, the studio behind her saucy psychological thriller “Saltburn.”
With the addition of Robbie, Elordi and LuckyChap, a superb most of the main “Saltburn” gamers are formally reunited for the brand new film. And if Fennell needed so as to add yet one more from that roster, Barry Keoghan, who performed the bathwater-slurping con man protagonist, just lately advised Selection he’s . “Something that Emerald places her palms on, I’m there. She’s unimaginable,” he stated.
Robbie has additionally been vocal in championing Fennell’s distinctive sensibilities after producing each the filmmaker’s motion pictures. “Emerald immerses you right into a world so shortly. She’s so masterful at tone and plot,” Robbie stated reflecting on “Saltburn’s” extra stunning scenes in a January interview with Selection. “She will get in your mind and he or she sort of faucets into essentially the most wicked components of it, so that you simply’re complicit within the story. That’s the watercooler second — the factor that individuals are speaking about two weeks afterwards.”
Nonetheless, audiences have been ready for the second Robbie would seem on digital camera in certainly one of Fennell’s movies. Carey Mulligan was nominated for the most effective actress Oscar for starring in “Promising Younger Girl” — a meaty function Robbie admitted was a “exhausting one to step apart for” — and Keoghan and Elordi took the lead for “Saltburn,” with supporting roles for Mulligan and Rosamund Pike. Appears the third time was the allure.
Robbie’s extra fast “Barbie”-follow-up is a starring function in Kogonada’s “A Large Daring Lovely Journey,” due out Could 2025, whereas LuckyChap’s (which she co-founded with Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara) most up-to-date movie, “My Previous Ass,” is in theaters now and the corporate’s first foray into stay theatre, the off-Broadway play “The Large Homosexual Jamboree,” just lately launched. After having a breakthrough yr with “Saltburn” and his function as Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” Elordi subsequent stars in “The Slim Highway to the Deep North,” directed by Justin Kurzel, and Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein.”
Robbie is represented by Leisure 360, CAA, Aran Michael Administration, lawyer Jeff Bernstein and Narrative. Elordi is represented by Gersh. Fennell is represented by UTA and Leisure 360.
Deadline was first to report information of Robbie, Elordi and LuckyChap’s involvement within the venture.