Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights Warner BrosEmerald Fennell is speaking out about the changes she made to the story of Wuthering Heights as part of her new film. AdvertisementAs is often the case with screen versions of Wuthering Heights, Emerald’s adaptation focusses solely on the first half of the book, but the Saltburn director made a string of other changes, too. AdvertisementSpeaking to Entertainment Weekly, Emerald began by admitting that she started scripting her new film by seeing how much of Wuthering Heights she could remember just from memory, having first encountered the book as a teenager. “I think the things that I remembered were both real and not real,” she explained. “That’s the great thing about this movie is that it could be made every year and it would still be so moving and so interesting.”Advertisement

Source: Huffington Post February 16, 2026 15:44 UTC