Emerald Fennell Sets ‘Wuthering Heights’ Adaptation As Next Feature
deadline.comAcademy 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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