Coinciding with Valentine's Day and so exactly a year before its premiere, Warner Bros has released the first image of Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights. There are many sites sharing it.
AV Club states that 'This isn't your English teacher's Wuthering Heights'.
The fact that one could confuse the new photo’s violent eroticism for cannibalism is likely intentional. We already knew that the tone of this film was likely to be capital-E Edgy. “There’s a scene in Wuthering Heights after Cathy dies when Heathcliff digs down to her coffin and tries to get to her. It’s very clear what he’s intending to do, which is to, at the very least touch her, kiss her. So it’s part of the Gothic tradition that sex and death are kind of intertwined,” the director previously told Time of her inspiration for a similar scene in Saltburn, months before Wuthering Heights was announced. It’s unclear how she’ll differentiate her actual Wuthering Heights from its more modern copy (it doesn’t help that Jacob Elordi stars in both), but we all knew she wasn’t going to do it by dialing back the sick-and-twisted factor.
Warner Bros. didn’t provide any new info to go with the image, but it kind of says it all already. What we do know as of this writing is that the film stars Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as tragic lovers Healthcliff and Catherine respectively, with Shazad Latif, Hong Chau, and Alison Oliver rounding out the cast. You may want to grab your copy of the Emily Brontë classic from the bookstore before the movie tie-in versions pop up. Or wait! We won’t judge (too hard). (Emma Keates)
February 14, 2025: You have exactly one year to prepare yourself. Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation is set to release on February 14, 2026. To celebrate what’s coming next Valentine’s Day, Warner Bros. has handed us a very zoomed-in first-look image of a finger and some blades of grass in a mouth. Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie are starring as Heathcliff and Catherine, and the full cast also includes Shazad Latif, Hong Chau, and Alison Oliver. Whose finger is it anyway? (Jason P. Frank)
JoBlo is calling all 'botanophiliacs'.
Anyone looking to spice up their Valentine’s Day “viewing material” might want to look at the first image from Emerald Fennell’s upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights. The simple yet sensual image shows a close-up of someone’s mouth with blades of green grass caught between extended fingers. While you could be wondering, “What’s so sexy about grass?” let me remind you that botanophilia, referring to a sexual attraction to plants, exists. Imagine how many gardeners see this image and suddenly need to excuse themselves for an extended bathroom break. You know it in your heart to be true. (Steve Seigh)
Simple yet sensual is what Fennell’s going for here as we see a close-up of someone’s mouth with blades of green grass caught between extended fingers. Earlier in the week, the film started production in the UK.
No coincidence, Warner Bros has set up a Valentine’s 2026 release for “Wuthering Heights.” Although that date doesn’t spell awards, don’t be surprised the film gets a very short awards qualifying run in late 2025.
We don’t know if Fennell’s version of “Wuthering Heights” is set in the present day, or maintains the novel’s 17th Century English setting. What seems to be the lure here, and the reason why Warner Bros acquired it for $80M, is Fennell — she ‘a coming off having directed “Promising Young Woman” and “Saltburn.” (Jordan Ruimy)
Wow, who knew Wuthering Heights was actually set in the 1600s!
ScreenRant makes the deduction that the image implies that 'The Movie Will Embrace Modern Sensuality' (TM).
Warner Bros. has now released the first official image from Wuthering Heights adaptation. The sensual still frame is an extreme closeup of fingers tangled up with grass, one of which is inside an open mouth. It is unclear if the fingers belong to the person whose mouth is shown or another character, though the angle of the hand seems to imply that they are one and the same.
With this image, it already seems as though Wuthering Heights will take on the tone of Emerald Fennell's Saltburn rather than a more traditional, staid adaptation of the material. Her 2023 black comedy thriller, which followed a young man (Barry Keoghan) seducing, manipulating, and murdering his way through the rich family of his college friend (Elordi), was full of sensual moments like the one captured in this still frame, which promises a more modern take on the period-set drama. (Brennan Klein)
Well now onto other things, although there's one more reference to Wuthering Heights, the novel. February 22 is Ireland Reads Day and so
Business Post has asked several 'authors and bookworms' to share their favourite reads.
Rita Ann Higgins, poet and playwright
The book that changed my life
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I started reading it when I was 22 and it was one of the first books I had ever read. I loved that I could see what was written in every page. Imagery became very important to me as a reader. I needed to be able to see what the words said. (Gillian Nelis)
Wide Sargasso Sea
By Jean Rhys (1966)
5. Readers of Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” will remember that Rochester’s first wife, Bertha, lives locked in the attic of Thornfield Hall. In Jean Rhys’s “Wide Sargasso Sea,” Rochester is never mentioned by name; most of the story unfolds in the years long before Jane arrives. We come to see Bertha (who goes by her middle name, Antoinette) as a three-dimensional character whose instability and violence are a response to her own parents’ mental illnesses, her abandonment as a child and her forced marriage to Rochester. It would be an oversimplification to describe Antoinette as sympathetic, but even the parts of “Wide Sargasso Sea” told from Rochester’s perspective paint a complex portrait of a woman isolated, alone and ignored. Rhys imagines that Antoinette’s early life wasn’t so different from Jane’s. Both girls were treated cruelly, left in the care of violent guardians and spent their childhoods longing to feel safe. While Jane’s terror and loneliness give way to a life of modest stability once she arrives at Thornfield Hall, the opposite is true for Antoinette. (Amanda Parrish Morgan)
2. My West End idol is…
Monica Dolan. I saw her play Kate in The Taming Of The Shrew in Barrow-in-Furness as a child, and in the curtain call I could have sworn she smiled at me. Later I saw her play Jane in Jane Eyre – and I still have the programmes for both plays in a box under my bed! Watching her on stage and screen is always exciting and mesmerising. (Jennifer Dickson-Purdy)
She was certainly memorable in Jane Eyre.
Dickinson, like many girls of her social class, spent a year away from her home in Amherst, Mass., boarding at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Mass. Its principal, Mary Lyon, had the students divide themselves into three categories: those who believed they were saved, those who had hope of such, and those who had no hope. (In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë satirizes this high-minded, Calvinist brutality in the figure of St. John Rivers.) (Jayme Stayer, S.J.)
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