Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are set to star in Emerald Fennell‘s feature adaptation of Wuthering Heights, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
MRC has tapped LuckyChap Entertainment to produce the film that is based on author Emily Brontë’s classic novel of the same name. Fennell is writing, directing and producing the project that is currently in preproduction and preparing to shoot in the U.K. later this year.
Robbie is set to play Catherine Earnshaw, while Elordi will portray Heathcliff. First published in 1847, the book centers on the tempestuous relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff that encompasses passion and revenge after they meet while living at the eponymous residence.
THR reported in July that Fennell was set to direct an adaptation of Wuthering Heights as her next feature.
Wuthering Heights marks Fennell’s third collaboration with LuckyChap, which Robbie runs with Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara. LuckyChap also produced Fennell’s previous films Promising Young Woman (2020) and Saltburn (2023). Promising Young Woman was nominated for five Oscars, notching a win for Fennell’s screenplay.
After leading last year’s blockbuster smash Barbie, Robbie can next be seen opposite Colin Farrell in director Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, which Sony Pictures is set to release in spring of 2025.
Elordi, known for projects including Saltburn and Euphoria, is set to star in the forthcoming Prime Video series The Narrow Road to the Deep North and in Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix movie Frankenstein.
There have been numerous screen adaptations of Wuthering Heights, including director William Wyler’s 1939 version that starred Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon and was nominated for best picture. More recent versions include Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley starring in a 2009 miniseries for ITV, while a 2011 feature starred Kaya Scodelario and James Howson.
Robbie is represented by Entertainment 360, CAA, Aran Michael Management, attorney Jeff Bernstein and Narrative. Elordi is repped by Gersh. Fennell is repped by UTA and Entertainment 360.
Deadline was first to report the Wuthering Heights castings.
