Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to Star in Emerald Fennell’s "Wuthering Heights" Film Adaptation

Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell‘s anticipated “Wuthering Heights” adaptation just got buzzier with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi attached to star as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.

MRC has tapped LuckyChap to produce the upcoming feature film — written, directed and produced by Fennell, based on the classic romance novel by Emily Brontë. 

This marks LuckyChap and Fennell’s third collaboration following 2020’s “Promising Young Woman” (which won Fennell the Oscar for best original screenplay) and 2023’s “Saltburn.” 

Fennell also had a featured role in LuckyChap’s $1.4 billion-grossing and Academy Award-winning “Barbie” movie, which Robbie produced and starred in last year.

“Wuthering Heights” is in pre-production, gearing up for a 2025 shoot in the U.K.

Fennell announced her plans to adapt “Wuthering Heights” as her third feature in July, posting a surprise announcement to social media with a graphic that reads, “Be with me always – Take any form – Drive me mad,” a line from the novel. At the time, all that was known about the project was that the filmmaker would reteam with MRC, the studio behind her saucy psychological thriller “Saltburn.”

Robbie’s more immediate “Barbie”-follow-up is a starring role in Kogonada’s “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” due out May 2025, while LuckyChap’s (which she co-founded with Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara) most recent film, “My Old Ass,” is in theaters now and the company’s first foray into live theatre, the off-Broadway play “The Big Gay Jamboree,” recently launched. 

After having a breakthrough year with “Saltburn” and his role as Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla,” Elordi next stars in “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” directed by Justin Kurzel, and Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein.”