Wuthering Heights: BookTok Meets Emerald's Epic Adaptation In A New Bold Trailer Ft Margot And Jacob

Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author, Emily Brontë. The novel was initially published in 1847 under her pen name, 'Ellis Bell'. Almost two centuries later, the literary epic is being adapted into a visual delight starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi titled the same as the original work. Now, the makers have shared another bold trailer for the film, and it's everything one could imagine.

Emerald Fennell's vision for Wuthering Heights comes into focus

The first full-length trailer of the Saltburn writer-director's already controversial adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel sketches out an epic love story, which, according to a title card, is "the greatest love story of all time", beyond the erotic visuals of the first trailer. The trailer introduces Bronte's star-crossed lovers, Catherine (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi), who meet first as children, then become entangled in a tortured love affair on the West Yorkshire moors. 

The epic has been one of the most popular literary works from the 1800s. The scene starts with 'Catherine' asking 'Heathcliff', "What would you do, Heathcliff, if you were rich?" To which he responds, "I suppose I'd do what all rich men do. Live in a big house, be cruel to my servants, take a wife." As in the book, the only novel ever completed by Brontë, 'Cathy' marries the wealthy 'Edgar Linton' (Shazad Latif) to retain her social status, causing a devastated 'Heathcliff' to flee and vow revenge. 

However, as the two struggle with their feelings, the trailer features several clips of kissing and crying in the rain to a new song, Chains of Love, by Charli XCX, from a new album to be released with the film in February 2025. Viewers also get a glimpse of some anachronistic fashion and Emerald Fennell's signature colourful flourishes. The trailer ends with an intense scene with 'Heathcliff' asking 'Cathy':

"So kiss me, and let us both be damned."

Emerald Fennell brings her love of mordant envelope-pushing controversy to the screens

The promising young director, Emerald Fennell, known for her love of mordant, envelope-pushing work, found controversy from the start with her erotically charged take on the English literary classic. The film's casting director, Kharmel Cochrane, defended her choices after some suggested that Margot Robbie was too old to play a young maiden. In contrast, others questioned Jacob Elordi's ethnicity, as 'Heathcliff' is generally perceived to have a Romany or Gypsy background and darker skin.

Reactions to a test screening in August 2025 were reportedly mixed, with one attender calling the adaptation "aggressively provocative and tonally abrasive" with one scene of a public hanging in which the "condemned man ejaculates mid-execution". Emerald responded to some of the criticism at the Bronte Women's Writing Festival in September 2025 and stated that the novel "cracked me open" after reading it at 14 years old. She was quoted as saying:

"I've been obsessed. I've been driven mad by this book. I know that if somebody else made it, I'd be furious. It's very personal material for everyone. It's very illicit. The way we relate to the characters is very private. [It is] an act of extreme masochism to try and make a film of something that means this much to you," she added. "There's an enormous amount of sado-masochism in this book. There's a reason people were deeply shocked by it."

The film will hit screens on Valentine's Day in 2026. Are you excited to see literary excellence meeting visual mastery with Wuthering Heights? 

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