Not Brat, But Bra Wuthering Heights

The Hollywood Reporter talks about the Wuthering Heights 2026 custom logo font:

Monet took inspiration from the Seine. Van Gogh found his spark in a star-filled sky. Teddy Blanks? He discovered his muse in his wife’s underwear drawer.

“Warner Bros. contacted me about doing a custom logo for their Wuthering Heights marketing campaign,” explains the title designer behind the eye-catching fonts in the key art for Emerald Fennell’s upcoming adaptation of Emily Brontë’s bodice-ripping 19th century gothic novel. “I was working on a bunch of different designs, and my wife suggested something sultry and sexy that had lace inside of it. That’s when I came up with the idea to use one of her bras to get the texture right.”

Blanks’ wife, by the way, has highbrow literary credentials of her own — she’s former New York Times book critic Molly Young — but still seems delighted to have her unmentionables plastered on posters nationwide. “From a young age I always knew my Intimate Apparel would be 1 inch from Jacob Elordi’s head, I just didn’t know how,” she recently joked on Instagram. (...) 

But the lacy logo for Wuthering Heights could mark a breakthrough for Blanks and his Brooklyn-based CHIPS Studio. “I’m hoping this will become my thing — anyone who’s looking for lingerie to be placed in their title cards will come to me,” he quips. “Underwear of any kind — boxer briefs, jock straps, I’m willing to go there.” (Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton)

We have been unable to trace the original font of Molly Young's quote, but nevertheless, se non è vero, è ben trovato. LOL. 

Some news outlets still mention the Wuthering Heights 2026 trailer:

Warner Bros. first-look trailer of Wuthering Heights opens with Catherine sitting at the table, seemingly having a romantic fantasy about Heathcliff. Footage plays out with a remix of Charli XCX’s “Everything Is Romantic” over the top showing how this could be a more modern approach to the classic romance story.

There’s been some controversy over the casting of Heathcliff with several interpretations over the years, many believing he comes from Romani, African, or South Asian origins. While Brontë doesn’t specify his race, there are some ambiguous clues, such as describing him as “dark-skinned” and revealing he was found in Liverpool as a child, which was a major port for Britain at the time.

That’s not the only controversy, with Emerald Fennell’s version seemingly not looking like a simple Wuthering Heights adaptation. The trailer hints at something darker and more unexpected. (Nathan Ellis in The Yorkshireman)

Shock Sells. In a crowded film landscape, nudity, kink, and controversy guarantee attention. Complexity gets lost. What Brontë wrote as a meditation on cruelty and obsession risks being repackaged as a sultry, doomed romance with very nice cheekbones.
For a reader, when a cult literary work is stripped for its most titillating parts, the layers of meaning—about race, class, gender, and the limits of love—fall away. Wuthering Heights becomes another meme-able romance instead of the unsettling, windswept tragedy Brontë intended.
Maybe the film will surprise us. Perhaps Emerald Fennell’s vision has more nuance than the trailer lets on, and the shocking flourishes are just marketing bait rather than the heart of the movie. Adaptations, after all, often reveal depths that early teasers obscure. But trailers set the tone, and this one, with its hyper-sexual sheen, has already lowered expectations. (Malika Bhagat in Times Now News)

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TikTok user itsyourfilmsis has a theory about the use of quotation marks in the Wuthering Heights 2026 poster. In her opinion, the quotation marks in “Wuthering Heights” suggest the film isn’t a direct adaptation but a story about someone reading and fantasizing themselves into Brontë’s novel. The era-shifting costumes and Margot Robbie’s possible role as a Victorian reader support this meta-framing, making the film about obsession and interpretation rather than faithful retelling. The theory is repeated in, among others, Fotogramas (Spain) and Wired (Italy). Other theories about the quotation marks can be read in The Indian Times, quoting both X-perts and Reddi-perts.

In our opinion, the explanation is simpler. The poster is clearly inspired by classical posters, such as Gone With the Wind. Not forgetting that the canonical Wuthering Heights 1939 also incorporated quotation marks in its title card:

But who knows? Maybe we're wrong.

An unexpected Jane Eyre mention in this Lancaster Guardian article about some plans to extend conservation areas in Lancaster:

Whittington

The village is associated with the Rev William Carus Wilson, a former rector and founder of charity schools for girls. He established the Whittington School for Training Servants and Teachers in 1820.

He also founded the Clergy Daughters’ School in Cowan Bridge which the Brontë sisters attended. He and the school are thought to have inspired Lowood and its headmaster, Mr Brocklehurst, from the book Jane Eyre. (Robbie Macdonald)

People publishes an excerpt of the Wuthering Heights-inspired novel The Favourites of Layne Fargo, now in paperback.