Emerald Fennell Says She Wants Her WUTHERING HEIGHTS to Be This Generation's TITANIC and ROMEO + JULIET

Director Emerald Fennell is about to release a new film adaptation of the classic novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

The new iteration stars Margot Robbie as Catherine, and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, and it tells a passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.

Margot Robbie sat down with Vogue to discuss her career and the upcoming film, and she talked about Fennell’s vision and goal for the movie, saying that the best reference point for the film as a whole is Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet.

“It’s a literary classic, visually stunning and emotionally resonant. In one of our first conversations about this film, I asked Emerald what her dream outcome was. She said, ‘I want this to be this generation’s Titanic.

I went to the cinema to watch Romeo & Juliet eight times and I was on the ground crying when I wasn’t allowed to go back for a ninth. I want it to be that.’”

Their hope is that women “go see it with 10 of their female friends.” “And I think it’s going to be an amazing date movie,” Robbie adds. She has been encouraged by the response from early test screenings.

“I was surprised by the fact that so few people had actually read the book,” she says of the film’s first audiences. “Quite a few had heard of it, but actually a huge portion hadn’t. So, for many people, this is their introduction to Wuthering Heights, which is exciting.”

The film seems to take the romance and intensity from the original story to the next level, and it has received a lot of chatter just from the trailers, but Wuthering Heights is exactly the kind of film that Robbie wants her production company, LuckyChap, to keep making more of – ones with a female focus or storyteller, which “feel like they have the potential to penetrate culture and a reason to exist.”

Projects in the pipeline for LuckyChap include two directorial efforts from Olivia Wilde, new TV shows from Maid’s Molly Smith Metzler and My Old Ass’s Megan Park, and a movie from Rich Peppiatt, the Irish director behind the film Kneecap.

Wuthering Heights is set to hit theatres on February 13, 2026. See it for Valentine’s Day, and see if it holds up against Romeo + Juliet and Titanic.