{"id":152383,"date":"2025-11-21T18:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152383\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:42:06","slug":"emerald-fennell-confirms-her-wuthering-heights-movie-isnt-exactly-what-it-seems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152383\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerald Fennell Confirms Her Wuthering Heights Movie Isn\u2019t Exactly What It Seems"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest trailer<\/a> for Emerald Fennell\u2019s take on Wuthering Heights was \u2026 well, it was something. The movie has the title in quotation marks, so it\u2019s really \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d this time. But why, punctuation pedants (implicating myself here), wanted to know?<\/p>\n

Well, we may have a small hint. Along with writing and directing the film, Fennell has \u201ccurated\u201d a new edition of the novel for Simon & Schuster\u2019s Female Filmmakers Collection. It is less than clear what this means, other than picking a slightly perplexing cover image (most of the Reactor staff initially thought the image, below, was more gynecological than equine-related) and writing a foreword. According to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, \u201ceach volume will be curated by a different director, tasked with curating a movie-inspired cover, writing a new foreword, and imbuing the paperback with cinematic references and Easter eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In her foreword, Fennell writes of the novel, \u201cIt is too slippery, too wild, too good to distill into two hours of film. Instead what I have attempted to do is adapt my own experience of reading it for the first time. It is an adaptation of a feeling: my first disemboweling by the baby god.\u201d<\/p>\n

My first disemboweling by the baby god. Just sit with that for a minute.<\/p>\n

If Fennell is not actually doing a straight adaptation of Emily Bront\u00eb\u2019s book\u2014a theory that was already floating around out there\u2014then it helps make sense of a few of the things in the trailer, including the quotation marks and the age of at least one of the stars. The text along with the trailer does note that the film is \u201cinspired by the greatest love story of all time,\u201d and \u201cinspired by\u201d is not the same as \u201cbased on,\u201d though either way I take issue with the rest of that sentence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWuthering Heights,\u201d which stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, is in theaters February 14, 2026. The not-a-tie-in edition of the novel arrives on shelves a bit earlier, on February 3. Surely fans will be scouring its references for hints as to what Fennell is doing.
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