\u201cFifty Shades of Grey\u201d has met its raunchy match. <\/p>\n
Some viewers are in disbelief over the trailer<\/a> for Emerald Fennell\u2019s 2026 Valentine\u2019s Day movie \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d for its erotic scenes.<\/p>\n The movie, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, adapts Emily Bront\u00eb\u2019s 1847 novel about two families of the\u00a0landed gentry\u00a0living on the\u00a0West Yorkshire\u00a0moors.<\/p>\n Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d trailer. Warner Bros<\/p>\n Margot Robbie in \u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d Warner Bros<\/p>\n Jacob Elordi in \u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d Warner Bros<\/p>\n But the trailer, released Wednesday, focuses more on the sexual relationship between Robbie and Elordi\u2019s characters, Catherine and Heathcliff.<\/p>\n The 1-and-a-half-minute video, played to the Charli XCX song \u201cEverything is romantic\u201d from her album \u201cBrat,\u201d <\/a>shows Elordi, 28, sucking Robbie\u2019s fingers twice, as well as someone placing their finger into a fish\u2019s mouth. <\/p>\n A erotic scene from the \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d trailer. Warner Bros<\/p>\n The footage also includes suggestive imagery of egg yolks running through someone\u2019s fingers and dough being rolled by someone\u2019s hands. BDSM is also included in the trailer.<\/p>\n Elordi is shirtless in a few shots and has multiple steamy moments with Robbie, 35.<\/p>\n Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d trailer. Warner Bros<\/p>\n Jacob Elordi takes his shirt off in the \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d trailer. Warner Bros<\/p>\n Margot Robbie in the \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d trailer. Warner Bros<\/p>\n After the trailer went live, fans took to X <\/a>to express their shock over the NSFW footage. <\/p>\n \u201cJust saw the teaser for #WutheringHeights and it is way worse than I expected\u2026 is it me or is it giving soft porn vibes..?? smh,\u201d one person wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cNot everything needs to be porn adjacent,\u201d another account wrote.<\/p>\n Emerald Fennell is directing \u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d Dave Benett\/Getty Images for Lea<\/p>\n \u201cSo they made heathcliff white, catherine blonde, and added bdsm?? this isn\u2019t wuthering heights lol,\u201d a third fan tweeted.<\/p>\n Another unhappy viewer wrote, \u201cThis has nothing to do with wuthering heights, looks more like a bodice ripper \/ bridgerton adaptation. Idk what fennell was thinking with this project, it\u2019s truly horrendous & insulting to the source material.\u201d<\/p>\n Fans also compared the trailer to the erotic \u201cFifty Shades\u201d franchise.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cEmily Bronte work is turned into fifty shades,\u201d one fan tweeted.<\/p>\n Jacob Elordi in the \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d trailer. Warner Bros<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t know Wuthering Heights was the fourth installment in the 50 Shades of Grey franchise!\u201d a different fan commented on the YouTube trailer.<\/p>\n Someone else on YouTube joked, \u201cFifty Shades of Grey: 1800s Version.\u201d<\/p>\n According to World of Reel<\/a>, Fennell\u2019s \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d adaptation had a test screening last month in Dallas and there was a \u201cmixed\u201d reaction from the audience.<\/p>\n One audience member reportedly described the film as \u201caggressively provocative and tonally abrasive.\u201d<\/p>\n Emerald Fennell at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020. Taylor Jewell\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n The movie reportedly opens with a public hanging where \u201ca condemned man ejaculates mid-execution, sending the onlooking crowd into a kind of orgiastic frenzy.\u201d<\/p>\n There are also \u201cseveral masturbation scenes\u201d and a moment where \u201ca woman is strapped into a horse\u2019s reins for a BDSM-tinged encounter\u201d in the film, according to World of Reel.<\/p>\n Jacob Elordi at the 2025 Venice Film Festival. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n However, one attendee told the website that Robbie and Elordi \u201cdeliver committed performances with great chemistry,\u201d though their characters are \u201ccold\u201d and \u201cunlikeable.\u201d<\/p>\n Fennell previously teamed up with the two actors on the also-raunchy 2023 film \u201cSaltburn.\u201d<\/a> Fennell directed and produced the project, Robbie served as a producer with her, and Elordi starred alongside Barry Keoghan and Rosamund Pike.<\/p>\n Margot Robbie steps out in Los Angeles on Aug. 8. Clint Brewer Photography \/ NORTH SUNSET \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n The \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d cast also includes Owen Cooper, Hong Chau,\u00a0Alison Oliver and Shazad Latif. Fennell and Robbie are producing the project alongside Josey McNamara.<\/p>\n The \u201cBarbie\u201d star told MTV<\/a> about the film in August, \u201cJust you wait. It\u2019s bananas. It\u2019s great. It\u2019s brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d will be released Feb. 14, 2026.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t