Emerald Fennell is set to write and direct this new adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel.

Whatever Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie’s souls are made of, his and hers are the same.

Or at least they will be for a time. Robbie (Barbie) and Elordi (Saltburn) are set to star opposite each other in a new adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic gothic romance, Wuthering Heights. Robbie will star as Catherine Earnshaw, a capricious young woman torn between her love for Elordi’s Heathcliff and the promise of social status with Edgar Linton.

Elordi, who is re-teaming with writer-director Emerald Fennell following Saltburn, is to portray Heathcliff, one of the most infamous romantic heroes in all of Western literature (some might consider him an O.G. f–boi).

In addition to starring, Robbie will also produce via her shingle LuckyChap. This will mark the third collaboration between LuckyChap and Fennell, as they also producer her debut Promising Young Woman and her sophomore feature, Saltburn.

Fennell will also produce out of studio, MRC. She is currently in pre-production and eyeing a 2025 shoot. Further details, including whether the adaptation will be set in the 19th-century mirroring the novel or be a more modern adaptation, are still to come.

 

Margot Robbie; Jacob Elordi. Jon Kopaloff/WireImage; Monica Schipper/Getty

Written by Emily Brontë, one of the three literary Brontë sisters, Wuthering Heights tells the story of two families living on the inhospitable West Yorkshire moors — the Earnshaws and the Lintons. It charts the doomed love between Cathy and Heathcliff, the adopted foster son of the Earnshaw family. Cathy loves Heathcliff, but she craves the security and social status afforded her by a marriage to Edgar Linton. Eventually, Heathcliff is driven mad by his love for Cathy and is haunted by her ghost.

Even prior to Wuthering Heights, Fennell’s work has shown a clear debt to the gothic genre and the work of the Brontë’s. In Saltburn, a character desecrates a grave in a fashion similar to Heathcliff’s own response to Cathy’s burial.

Wuthering Heights has been adapted to the screen several times before, most famously in a 1939 version starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. That adaptation was nominated for Best Picture. There is also a 1970 film starring Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff, a 1992 film starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, and several BBC and ITV television adaptations.

Most recently, it received a 2011 adaptation directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Kaya Scodelario and James Howson.

Now, Robbie, Elordi, and Fennell will bring us moor.