By “Saltburn” and “Promising Young Woman” filmmaker Emerald Fennell has teased plans for her own film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 classic novel “Wuthering Heights”.
Fennell did a posting on social media, an image with the line from the novel “Be with me always – Take any form – Drive me mad” along with the title and the phrase “A Film By Emerald Fennell”. There’s also an elaborate graphic involving skeletons.
The book, the only published work by Brontë, the story concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws’ foster son Heathcliff.
Widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, the book at the time was controversial for its challenges to Victorian morality, religion, and the class system along with its depiction of domestic abuse.
It has inspired many screen adaptations including William Wyler’s 1939 film with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon, Robert Fuest’s 1970 movie with Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall, Peter Kosminsky’s 1992 film with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, a 2009 film with Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley, and a 2011 film with James Howson and Kaya Scodelario.
Fennell has previously talked about her obsession with a gothic sensibility, telling The L.A. Times its a “genre where comedy and horror, revulsion and desire, sex and death are forever entwined, where every exchange is heavy with the threat of violence, or sex or both”.
Source: Twitter
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