{"id":420234,"date":"2026-01-18T01:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420234\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T01:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:28:17","slug":"emerald-fennell-explains-why-wuthering-heights-movie-title-is-in-quotation-marks-emerald-fennell-wuthering-heights-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/420234\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerald Fennell Explains Why \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019 Movie Title is in Quotation Marks | Emerald Fennell, Wuthering Heights | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/emerald-fennell\/\" title=\"Emerald Fennell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emerald Fennell<\/a> is addressing the criticism surrounding her new movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/wuthering-heights\/\" title=\"Wuthering Heights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever since the movie starring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/margot-robbie\/\" title=\"Margot Robbie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Margot Robbie<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jacob-elordi\/\" title=\"Jacob Elordi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Elordi<\/a>, many have<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/12\/05\/margot-robbie-defends-jacob-elordis-wuthering-heights-casting-despite-heathcliff-being-described-as-dark-skinned\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> taken issue that the movie doesn\u2019t appear to be a true adaption<\/a> of Emily Bront\u00eb\u2018s 1847 novel.<\/p>\n<p>In a new interview, the 40-year-old Oscar-winning filmmaker addressed the criticism and explained why the movie title is in quotation marks.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026\u201cThe thing for me is you can\u2019t adapt a book as dense and complicated and difficult as this book,\u201d Emerald explained to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Fandango\/status\/2011498832949817809?s=20\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/x.com\/Fandango\/status\/2011498832949817809?s=20&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fandango<\/a>. \u201cI can\u2019t say I\u2019m making Wuthering Heights. It\u2019s not possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This could also explain why in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/03\/margot-robbie-jacob-elordi-star-in-sexually-charged-wuthering-heights-teaser-trailer-watch-now\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trailer<\/a>, it says that the movie is \u201cinspired by the greatest love story,\u201d opposed to it being based on the book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I can say is I\u2019m making a version of it,\u201d she continued. \u201cThere\u2019s a version that I remembered reading that isn\u2019t quite real. And there\u2019s a version where I wanted stuff to happen that never happened. And so it is Wuthering Heights, and it isn\u2019t.\u201d<br \/>\u201cWuthering Heights\u201d hits theaters on February 13. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/13\/wuthering-heights-trailer-margot-robbie-jacob-elordi-yearn-for-each-other-in-emily-bronte-movie-adaption-watch-now\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the latest trailer here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emerald Fennell is addressing the criticism surrounding her new movie \u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d Ever since the movie starring Margot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-420234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}