Many sites are commenting on the teaser shared by Charli XCX of a new song and shot clip of
Wuthering Heights 2026.
The Brat era is behind us, and it’s time for new Charli XCX music (and film projects)! On Thursday, the pop diva shared a short, eerie teaser of a new song called “House” featuring The Velvet Underground’s John Cale, set to be featured in Wuthering Heights. The song’s out Monday.
On Instagram, Charli called it “the first offering from my album for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights.” She also shared a longer statement on social media, saying she felt “immediately” inspired to start making music for the film.
“After being so in the depths of my previous album, I was excited to escape into something entirely new, entirely opposite,” she wrote. “When I think of Wuthering Heights, I think of many things. I think of passion and pain. I think of England. I think of the Moors, I think of the mud and the cold. I think of determination and grit.”
The video teaser Charli shared features eerie, horror film–like sound effects and the haunting sound of violins as Charli is pinned down by an elderly hand while staring directly into the camera. “Can I speak to you privately for a moment?” an ominous voice asks, as a raven-like bird flashes on screen.
In her post about the song, she called herself a “huge fan” of the Velvet Underground and recalled a quote from Cale in the band’s documentary, when he said, “any song had to be both ‘elegant and brutal.'”
Charli wrote: “I got really stuck on that phrase. I wrote it down in my notes app and would pull it up from time to time and think about what he meant.” The phrase came up as she made the music for this film, and so she decided to reach out to him for his opinion and they ended up collaborating.
“That voice, so elegant, so brutal. I sent him some songs, and we started talking specifically about House. We spoke about the idea of a poem. He recorded something and sent it to me. Something that only John could do. And it was… well, it made me cry,” she wrote. “I feel so lucky to have been able to work with John on this song. I’ve been so exited to share it with you all, sitting quietly in anticipation.” (Tomás Mier)
Spectator has several writers recommend their books of the year. Frances Wilson (whose own take on Muriel Spark,
Electric Spark, is great, too) rightly suggests
The Invention of Charlotte Brontë by Graham Watson (The History Press, £22) was published in the UK last year but received almost no notice until its US publication this summer. How could a book this riveting have slipped under the radar? Watson’s subject is the turbulent history of Elizabeth Gaskell’s classic biography, The Life of Charlotte Brontë. It was written to expose everyone she believed had hastened her friend’s death, and Gaskell went at her task with an ice pick. Accusations of libel led to the appearance of the diluted edition with which we are now familiar. ‘I don’t think there ever was such an apple of discord as that unlucky book,’ Gaskell reflected.
The Bookseller claims that, 'sequels give diminishing returns; prequels both reinvigorate and stand alone'.
Perhaps the most admired sequel is Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, providing a back story for the first Mrs Rochester in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. (Anthony Gardner)
BBC Countryfile lists the '15 dreamiest, most romantic British rural love stories on screen' including
Jane Eyre (2011)
Director: Cary Fukunaga
The classic gothic romance, Jane Eyre treads a fine line between love story and thriller, as our governess heroine falls in love with brooding Mr Rochester while simultaneously being terrorised by a strange presence that stalks the corridors at night and seems determined to see everything burn.
This 2011 adaptation is ably supported by the cast: Mia Wasikowska is a contained and non-histrionic Jane; Michael Fassbender makes an intense and desperate Rochester; Judi Dench gives Mrs Fairfax a steadiness that helps ground the far-fetched aspects of the tale.
The Derbyshire Dales feature heavily: Haddon Hall becomes Thornfield Hall; Rochester's horse rears up in the woodland of Chatsworth House; and Jane flees in distress to the rain-soaked moors. Director Cary Fukunaga is loyal to the darkness of the novel, capturing its psychological grimness, and has said that the film's location was key. "Northern England – Yorkshire and Derbyshire, the moors and dales – they look like they're something straight out of a Tim Burton horror film.
The trees are all twisted by the wind; the bracken and the heather on the moors have this amazing hue. And the weather is so extreme and it changes all the time. The house even, Haddon Hall, is just so steeped in history, the spaces, the galleries, they sort of just breathe and you feel the presence of the history." [...]
Wuthering Heights (2011)
Director: Andrea Arnold
This 2011 adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic dark romance stars Kaya Scodelario as Catherine and James Howson as Heathcliff, although the first half is dominated by their younger counterparts, Shannon Beer as young Cathy and Solomon Glave as early Heathcliff.
The film is formidable in its raw earthiness, rich with foreboding shots of the moor and whipped through with a biting wind that seems to inform every scene. Artfully weighty shots of a dying rabbit or hung pheasant and beautifully bruising panoramics of the landscape accompany the mean, harsh existence of life at the farmhouse.
Everything is raw and brutal, creating a savage and uncomfortable love story that seems wildly unsuited to the word 'romance'. It is a hard, heavy experience, much like the life of its protagonists. Filmed in North Yorkshire, Cotescue Park in Coverham became Thrushcross Grange, while Moor Close Farm in Thwaite is Wuthering Heights. (Maria Hodson)
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