New "Wuthering Heights" Movie Adaptation in Works

“Saltburn” filmmaker Emerald Fennell is working on a film adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” the famed 1847 gothic novel by Emily Brontë about two families living in northern England.

Fennell posted about the project on social media, sharing a graphic that reads, “Be with me always – Take any form – Drive me mad,” a line from the novel.

Insiders disclosed that the filmmaker will reteam with MRC, the studio behind her hit “Saltburn.”

There have been a handful of screen adaptations of “Wuthering Heights” throughout the years, including William Wyler’s 1939 film starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon, Robert Fuest’s 1970 movie with Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall, and Peter Kosminsky’s 1992 film led by Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche. 

There also were two TV movies — in 2009 with Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley, and in 2011 with James Howson and Kaya Scodelario — and two series, in 1978 and 1998.

Fennell’s latest movie, “Saltburn,” starring Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan, had a heavy gothic influence.

“I’ve always been obsessed with the gothic,” Fennell revealed in a January 2024 column for the Los Angeles Times. “the gothic world has always had me in its grip.”

Fennell’s other works include 2020's “Promising Young Woman,” which nabbed five Oscar nominations, and “Killing Eve,” on which she served as Season 2 head writer and executive producer.