It looks like Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell has found her next film project in the wake of Saltburn, as she has teased that she will be directing Emily Brontë’s classic Gothic romance, Wuthering Heights.
Emerald Fennell to direct 'Wuthering Heights' film adaptation.
Sources tell Deadline that the project will reunite Fennell with studio MRC, who were similarly involved with Saltburn. There's no word on who will star or handle distribution, but a tagline accompanying an artwork posted to her official account reads: "Be with me always. Take any shape. Drive me crazy." Check out the message below.
Published by Brontë under the pseudonym Ellis Bell a year before her death, Wuthering Heights is set in the Yorkshire Moors and revolves around the intense and often destructive relationships between two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons. The story is framed by Mr. Lockwood, a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, who learns about the tumultuous history of Wuthering Heights from Nelly Dean, a long-term servant. At the heart of the novel is the passionate and tragic love story between Heathcliff, an orphan adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, and Mr. Earnshaw's daughter, Catherine.
Over the years, the novel has spawned numerous film and television adaptations, most recently by Andrea Arnold, whose 2011 film starred Kaya Scodelario and James Howson. Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche helmed a 1992 film adaptation directed by Peter Kosminsky, with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon directing William Wyler's all the way back in 1939.
