Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to lead Wuthering Heights film

Australia’s most exportable stars are set to bring the heat to the icy Yorkshire moors in a new film from Saltburn director Emerald Fennell.

Australian stars Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie will star in an upcoming adaptation of the Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights.

Dig out those red stockings, because another Wuthering Heights reboot is nigh.

The upcoming film from British director Emerald Fennell will feature two of Australia’s most exportable stars: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.

Fennell, still riding high from last year’s hit Saltburn (which also starred Elordi), teased the project in July with a memorable line from Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel: “Be with me always. Take any form. Drive me mad.”

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— Emerald Fennell (@emeraldfennell) July 12, 2024

Robbie, fresh off her billion-dollar success with Barbie, will produce the film through her company, LuckyChap, which has backed both of Fennell’s previous films — 2021’s Promising Young Woman and 2023’s Saltburn.

LuckyChap shared the official announcement on social media, confirming that Robbie and Elordi have signed on to the project.

Details are still scarce, but Deadline has confirmed that Robbie and Elordi will portray the fiercely passionate lovers Catherine and Heathcliff. That’s a lot of Australian heat for the icy English moors — perhaps a sign that Fennell isn’t interested in sticking to the stately adaptations of the past.

Jacob Elordi as Felix Catton in Saltburn. Picture: MGM and Amazon Studios

Fennell, who also played Camilla in The Crown, is set to write, direct, and produce, with filming expected to begin in the UK in 2025.

The director last year spoke about Wuthering Heights being a key inspiration for the writing of the sinister class satire Saltburn. In an Interview with Time Magazine, she said: “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.”