The trailer for Emerald Fennell‘s long-awaited film Wuthering Heights is finally here, and the people have… thoughts.
The upcoming adaptation of Emily Brontë‘s 1847 classic gothic romance stars Australian heartthrobs Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff, respectively.
The trailer shows a dark, dreary world in which Robbie’s Catherine is consumed by salacious thoughts about Elordi’s Heathcliff. It kicks off with Catherine making bread and daydreaming about her trysts with her former lover, before flashbacks show snippets from their tragic, yet beautiful, love story.
In true Emerald Fennell style, the trailer is dark, aesthetically luxurious, gothically decadent and laced with pops of colour. It’s filled with snippets of sweaty chests heaving, suggestive textures, fingers put into mouths, dresses being cut off and countless moments of yearning. And, in the most 2025 move possible, the trailer is soundtracked by Charli XCX.
Just like the director’s last film, Saltburn, Wuthering Heights is a story drenched in themes of jealousy, revenge and social class. While some people are excited to see the Promising Young Woman director’s fresh, sexy interpretation of the beloved text, others are not too jazzed about Fennell straying from Brontë’s source material.
new original songs by me for Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. in theatres february 14th. happy early valentines <3 pic.twitter.com/e716t8qRJh
— Charli (@charli_xcx) September 3, 2025
emily bronte is rising from her grave as we speak because why did they turn wuthering heights into fifty shades of heathcliff and cathy https://t.co/82UL4H6fHT
— gen (@daehaerys) September 3, 2025
emerald’s psychosexual fantasies aside, wuthering heights looks absolutely stunning pic.twitter.com/ctQqu45uXg
— ً (@helenshivered) September 3, 2025
the way this didn't need to be a wuthering heights adaptation, like girl if you wanted to make a horny period piece then do that. no need to terrorise emily bronte https://t.co/XGVpi9QWFP
— shania♡ (@sshxniaa) September 3, 2025
It’s not the first time Fennell’s iteration of Wuthering Heights received some less-than-optimal reactions. Last month, World of Reel reported that the first group of viewers of the upcoming film had mixed feelings about it, with one attendee describing it as “aggressively provocative and tonally abrasive”.
The casting of Elordi as Heathcliff has also garnered some negative press, as the description of Heathcliff as having “dark skin” in the book is believed to be part of the reason there is so much prejudice against him. However, casting director Karmel Cochrane, defended the decision.
“There was one Instagram comment that said the casting director should be shot,” she said, per The Guardian.
“But just wait till you see it, and then you can decide whether you want to shoot me or not. But you really don’t need to be accurate. It’s just a book. That is not based on real life. It’s all art.”
Ultimately, if Fennell’s past works have taught us anything, it’s that her films are not everyone’s cup of tea — and that’s okay.
Along with Robbie and Elordi, the film also stars Hong Chau as Nelly Dean, Alison Oliver as Isabella Linton and Shazad Latif as Edgar Linton. Fennell’s imaging of the classic will be the fifth film adaptation to hit our screens.
Wuthering Heights is set to hit cinemas on Valentine’s Day, February 14, so you’ve got plenty of time to go to the library and brush up on your Brontë knowledge before it comes out.
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