{"id":258312,"date":"2026-01-29T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258312\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:12:08","slug":"wuthering-heights-director-emerald-fennell-on-breaking-with-the-book-to-cast-jacob-elordi-as-heathcliff-there-are-so-many-different-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/258312\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019 Director Emerald Fennell on Breaking With the Book to Cast Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff: \u201cThere Are So Many Different Takes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emerald Fennell<\/a>\u2019s highly anticipated adaptation of Wuthering Heights<\/a> made its debut in Hollywood on Wednesday \u2014 and don\u2019t be expecting an exact retelling of Emily Bront\u00eb<\/a>\u2019s classic novel.<\/p>\n

The 1847 book follows the intense love affair between Heathcliff<\/a> (played by Jacob Elordi<\/a>) and Catherine Earnshaw<\/a> (Margot Robbie<\/a>) in 18th-century England; Fennell\u2019s version, which is being stylized with quotation marks as \u201cWuthering Heights<\/a>,\u201c features some key casting changes, addition of numerous sex scenes and a soundtrack courtesy of Charli xcx.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing is that it\u2019s my favorite book in the world,\u201d the filmmaker told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> on the red carpet. \u201cLike many people who love this book, I\u2019m kind of fanatical about it, so I knew right from the get-go I couldn\u2019t ever hope to make anything that could even encompass the greatness of this book. All I could do was make a movie that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emerald Fennell\u2019s highly anticipated adaptation of Wuthering Heights made its debut in Hollywood on Wednesday \u2014 and don\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9721,9722,9718,9720,9719,156,434,4223,409,111,139,69,9723,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-258312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-acteurs","9":"tag-actrices","10":"tag-actualites","11":"tag-celebrites","12":"tag-cinema","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-films","15":"tag-hollywood","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-realisateurs","21":"tag-stars","22":"tag-television","23":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}