A late 2025 release for Wuthering Heights

World of Reel reports that Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights might have a late 2025 release.

Here’s The InSneider, with another fascinating read on Warner Bros. shakeup of their 2025 calendar. We now “can safely bet” that Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” will arrive in “late 2025.” 

“Wuthering Heights,” which stars Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, is supposed to be shot during the first quarter of 2025. It’s now being sped up by Warner Bros for release during the thick of next year’s awards season calendar. 

We don’t know if Fennell’s version of “Wuthering Heights” is set in the present day, or maintains the novel’s 17th Century [sic] English setting. What seems to be the lure here is Fennell having just directed “Promising Young Woman” and “Saltburn” back-to-back; not to mention the enticing presence of Robbie and Elordi.

One thing’s for certain, and that’s the level of interest for the project, which sparked a bidding war amongst many studios in September. Netflix bid well over $150M to nab Fennell’s film, but she wanted a robust theatrical rollout and finally settled, for $70M less, with Warner Bros. (Jordan Ruimy)

A contributor to The Conversation discusses infectious diseases that killed Victorian children and how they were portrayed in literature.

Children were familiar with disease risks. While typhus runs rampant in “Jane Eyre,” killing nearly half the girls at their charity school, 13-year-old Helen Burns is struggling against tuberculosis. Ten-year-old Jane is filled with horror at the possible loss of the only person who has ever truly cared for her.

An entire chapter deals frankly and emotionally with all this dying. Jane cannot bear separation from quarantined Helen and seeks her out one night, filled with “the dread of seeing a corpse.” In the chill of a Victorian bedroom, she slips under Helen’s blankets and tries to stifle her own sobs as Helen is overtaken with coughing. A teacher discovers them the next morning: “my face against Helen Burns’s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was – dead.”

The disconcerting image of a child nestled in sleep against another child’s corpse may seem unrealistic. But it is very like the mid-19th-century memento photographs taken of deceased children surrounded by their living siblings. The specter of death, such scenes remind us, lay at the center of Victorian childhood. (Andrea Kaston Tange)

Manchester Evening News reports that the Peak District has been named the UK's best road trip.

Literature enthusiasts might want to stop by Hathersage, a town featured in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Nearby North Lees Hall is believed to have inspired the depiction of Mr Rochester's Thornfield Hall. [...] Close by, Haddon Hall appeared as The Inn at Lambton in the same film. Haddon also featured in the 1996 version of Jane Eyre and 1998's Elizabeth. (Isobel Pankhurst)

I Prefer Reading lists Wuthering Heights among other 'Classics That Are Perfect for Wintertime'.