Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell looks to have found her next feature project on the heels of Saltburn, as she’s taken to X to tease that she’ll be helming an adaptation of Wuthering Heights, the classic Gothic romance by Emily Brontë.
Sources tell Deadline that the project will reunite Fennell with MRC, which was a producer on Saltburn. No word on who will star or distribute, but a tagline accompanying a piece of art posted to her official account reads: “Be With Me Always.
Take Any Form. Drive Me Mad.” View the post below. Published by Brontë under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, a year before her death, Wuthering Heights is set in the Yorkshire moors and revolves around the intense and often destructive relationships between two families: the Earnshaws and the Lintons.
The narrative is framed by Mr. Lockwood, a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, who learns about the tumultuous history of Wuthering Heights through Nelly Dean, a long-time servant.
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