Vulture has a delightful article on why 'The Best Parts of Period Dramas Are the Sheep'.
Shepherding is also just something you can do in England’s more inhospitable environments, where other forms of working the land aren’t going to turn much of a profit. That means you’ll see a lot of sheep in adaptations of books by the Brontë sisters, which are set in such cold and dreary and wet places. In the trailer for 2011’s Jane Eyre, you’ll notice Mia Wasikowska on her quest for freedom and self-determination. (There, sheep stand for all of the metaphors above as well as a symbol of civilization and stability in a world of Hobbesian cruelty.)
And if you go all the way back to the 1939 adaptation of Wuthering Heights with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier? They’re riding on horseback past a big flock of sheep in the midst of their tempestuous passion. The imagery is maybe a little different here. Catherine and Heathcliff are wolves! They’re dangerous! They’ll tear the sheep around them apart.
But this brings us all the way around to a point at the end of this blog post. So far, Warner Bros. has released two trailers for Emerald Fennell’s smoldering and sensual adaptation of Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi (a guy, we have already established, who is familiar with sheep-related drama). Neither trailer includes any sheep. There’s Heathcliff, shirtless in a barn, lifting hay that might eventually be fed to sheep. And Heathcliff looking out over the moors, where he should probably be tending to a few sheep. (In case you haven’t read the book, he is made to be a servant on the estate before he goes off and gets mysteriously rich. He should know about sheep.)
Emerald Fennell, are you going to deny period-drama fans the pleasure of a few shots of herds of sheep? Is the movie, which includes a soundtrack by Charli XCX, going to be so bah-ratty that it doesn’t give us some livestock? Can you promise that there will be at least one sequence where we see either Robbie, Elordi, or even Hong Chau in frame alongside a sheep and that it will be metaphorically important? I know you’re not someone to turn down an on-the-nose image! Emerald, promise me sheep, and only then will I buy a ticket. (Jackson McHenry)
People will have an early chance to see whether there are sheep or not at the premieres.
Average Socialite announces the LA premiere:
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
5:30 PM 10:00 PM
Deets: The anticipated premiere of Wuthering Heights is rolling out the red carpet in LA.
A bold and original imagining of one of the greatest love stories of all time, Emerald Fennell’s “WUTHERING HEIGHTS” stars Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, whose forbidden passion for one another turns from romantic to intoxicating in an epic tale of lust, love and madness.
Who You May Spot: Jacob Elordi, Margot Robbie, Charlie XCX, and more
Hint for the Average Socialite: This event is invite only.
Wuthering Heights will premiere in London on February 5. Like most premieres in the capital, the movie’s stars are expected to walk the carpet from around 5.45pm. [...]
Wuthering Heights will have its London premiere in the heart of the capital’s cinema district, Leicester Square at the spot’s Odeon Luxe. [...]
The film’s stars including Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as well as Alison Oliver, Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Martin Clunes, Ewan Mitchell, Charlotte Mellington are just some of the stars expected to walk the red carpet.
Director Emerald Fennell and pop icon Charli XCX who has worked on the film’s soundtrack is also set to attend. (Amber Peake)
Flickering Myth features the character posters for the movie.
Daily Mail highlights some parts of an interview with Alison Oliver on Elle.
Following Emerald's last sizzling film Saltburn, fans of the writer and director are awaiting a steamy take on Wuthering Heights, with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi leading the cast as star-crossed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff in the movie.
Alison shared insight into her role as Isabella Linton in the film, adding: 'She's a very repressed character who is desperate for love.
'Emerald's interpretation of Isabella's story is the reverse of Cathy's; there's an uncorseting of her. Like she becomes undone. There's something so powerful about being underestimated.'
Alison added that she learned she'd got the role after Emerald sent her a text message, after she previously worked with The Crown star on Saltburn.
'She said, if you want Isabella, she's yours,' the star revealed.
In the wake of speculation that this version of Wuthering Heights will be racier than others, Alison said it will reflect Emerald's experience of reading the gothic book.
She revealed: 'It's how Emerald [Fennell] experienced the book when she read it as a teenager. So it's not what's on the page, and I don't think that's what it's trying to be.
'You'll never be bored by an Emerald Fennell film. I think it will make noise, but you never know how things are going to be taken. I've learned that it's not really my business to worry about that.' (Laura Fox)
A contributor to
BookClub makes the following controversial statement in an article about unreliable narrators.
Following this thinking, there obviously are other books that kind of fall into similar narration/plot styles like Northanger Abbey and Jane Eyre (cause Jane Eyre is just a Northanger Abbey 2.0). (The Austen Shelf)
Sorry, but not at all.
The Eyre Guide now tackles of the question of 'What if … Jane and Rochester’s wedding was not interrupted?'
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