Wuthering Heights (2026)

Set in 19th century England, the owner (Martin Clunes) of the Wuthering Heights estate brings home a young boy (Owen Cooper morphing into Jacob Elordi) he has rescued from the streets. The boy forms a bond with the owner's young daughter (Charlotte Mellington morphing into Margot Robbie) that turns into a passionate love as they grow into adults. Loosely based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte and directed by Emerald Fennell (PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN). First off, this is NOT Emily Bronte's WUTHERING HEIGHTS, it's clearly Fennell's WUTHERING HEIGHTS! Fennell has gone on record as saying she wanted to recreate the feeling of a teenage girl reading the book for the first time. I'm not a teenage girl so clearly I'm not the demographic Fennell was aiming for. Fennell brings in S&M, masturbation and lots of f*cking which weren't in Bronte's novel but I assume Fennell feels its what teenage girls want to see. Fennell jettisons Cathy's older brother from the film and instead of an elderly housekeeper, Nelly is now an Asian servant (Hong Chau) about the same age as Cathy. I've seen many Heathcliffs (Laurence Olivier, Charlton Heston, Richard Burton, Timothy Dalton, Ralph Fiennes among them) and they all brought an intensity, the destructive passion that destroys Heathcliff. Alas, Elordi may be a hunk but he can't summon up that passion and when he wants to show passion, he licks Robbie's face like a dog! Judging from what's on view here, Fennell's reimagination of Bronte's novel suggests that love is only passionate when it degrades us. On the plus side, the film looks fantastic thanks to Linus Sandgren's (LA LA LAND) elegant cinematography. With Shazad Latif and Alison Oliver.