Warner Bros Picks Up Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi’s ‘Wuthering Heights’

Warner Bros. Movement Photos Group has received the function movie adaptation bundle of Saltburn filmmaker’s Emerald Fennell tackle Wuthering Heights.

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are connected to star within the function undertaking, which hails from MRC and generated intense curiosity from streamers and studios and a bidding battle. Warners received out partially resulting from its dedication to launching Heights theatrically worldwide.

“We’re thrilled to accomplice with MRC, Emerald Fennell, and LuckyChap for this function movie adaptation of Wuthering Heights,” mentioned Warner Bros. Movement Image Group’s Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy in an announcement. “From the second we had been launched to Emerald’s imaginative and prescient for the movie, and with an unimaginable forged led by Margot and Jacob, we had been immediately dedicated to forging a partnership with this crew to make sure the film was delivered to theaters around the globe.”

MRC is financing the undertaking, with LuckyChap, the banner run by Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara and is predicated at Warners, producing. Fennell wrote the script and can direct and in addition produce.

Adapting the celebrated novel by Emily Brontë, the bundle sees Robbie enjoying Catherine Earnshaw, whereas Elordi will painting Heathcliff. First revealed in 1847, the guide facilities on the tempestuous relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff that encompasses ardour and revenge after they meet whereas residing on the eponymous residence.

“From our first conversations with Emerald about Wuthering Heights, we had been impressed by her imaginative and prescient to make one thing that channels the longing and heartache of the novel whereas including her distinctive sensibility and exquisite aesthetic,” MRC executives Brye Adler and Jonathan Golfman enthused. “We’re thrilled to accomplice with Warner Brothers and our buddies at LuckyChap to assist deliver Emerald’s movie to audiences around the globe.”

The deal brings a number of gamers again collectively. Wuthering Heights marks the second collaboration between MRC, LuckyChap and Fennell, after Saltburn, the buzzy drama during which Elordi starred and streamed on Amazon. And it’s the third collaboration between LuckyChap and Fennell, who first teamed up with one other buzzy drama, 2020’s Promising Younger Girl. That film netted Fennell a finest screenplay Oscar and and racked up 5 Oscar nominations.