EXCLUSIVE: Shazad Latif, Hong Chau and AIison Oliver have landed the three remaining major roles in Emerald Fennell’s buzzy Wuthering Heights adaptation for Warner Bros, MRC, and LuckyChap.
Details as to their roles are under wraps for the moment. They come to the project after Warner Bros snapping it up in a fierce bidding war, with a commitment to a theatrical run with a big P&A spend. As previously announced, LuckyChap’s Margot Robbie and Euphoria’s Jacob Elordi lead the cast.
Fennell revealed that Wuthering Heights would be her next project in a post on X (formerly twitter) over the summer. Published byEmily Brontë under the pseudonym Ellis Bell a year before her death, the classic novel is set in the Yorkshire moors and revolves around the intense and often destructive relationships between two families: the Earnshaws and the Lintons. The narrative is framed by Mr. Lockwood, a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, who learns about the tumultuous history of Wuthering Heights through Nelly Dean, a longtime servant. The core of the book is the passionate and tragic love story between Heathcliff, an orphan adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, and Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine.
Fennell will direct from her own script and produce alongside LuckyChap, which previously collaborated with the filmmaker and MRC on her darkly comedic thriller Saltburn for Amazon MGM Studios. Coming off huge success with Barbie, Robbie’s production company has a multiyear first-look feature deal at WB, where her latest film has landed.
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