We finally have the full trailer for Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” (yes, those quotations are very much part of the title), which amps up the movie as being inspired by the “greatest love stories of all time” (extremely debatable) and shows Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff and Margot Robbie’s Catherine sexily yearning for each other with a love that is in no way problematic or overlaid with dark undertones.
It is, in other words, a markedly different vibe than the novel, all the more so with Charli XCX’s original song going over it. (I like the song! This is by no means a diss on the song AT ALL. This music video Charli XCX released a few days ago tied to the movie, in fact, is keeping me alive.) Fennell drafted the screenplay “based on the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë,” so perhaps that “based on” is doing some heavy lifting here. The marketing materials describe it as “a bold and original imagining,” after all, and that along with the movie’s title in quotes, makes me thing more is going on here than we’re seeing in today’s trailer.
If Fennell’s interpretation gets away from the source material, I’m all for it. Today’s trailer is full of deep, angsty yearning, and I’ve never seen quick shots of kneading dough, eating grass, and licking walls feel so sexy. Whatever this film ends up being, odds are good that it will at least be interesting, given that Fennell’s previous credits include Saltburn, Promising Young Woman, and Killing Eve. I’m here for it.
Check it out for yourself below.
