Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to Star in Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ Film

Margot Robbie and BAFTA nominee Jacob Elordi have signed on to play Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, respectively, in the highly anticipated adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" by Academy Award winner Emerald Fennell.

LuckyChap has been hired by MRC to produce the upcoming film, which is based on Emily Bront's classic romance novel and is written, directed, and produced by Fennell. This imprints LuckyChap and Fennell's third joint effort following 2020's "Promising Young lady" (which won Fennell the Oscar for best unique screenplay) and 2023's "Saltburn." Fennell likewise played a highlighted part in LuckyChap's $1.4 billion-netting and Foundation Grant winning "Barbie" film, which Robbie created and featured in a year ago.

In July, Fennell posted a surprise announcement to social media with a graphic that read, "Be with me always – Take any form – Drive me mad," a line from the novel. Wuthering Heights is currently in pre-production and preparing for a shoot in the United Kingdom in 2025. At that point, everything that was realized about the task was that the producer would reteam with MRC, the studio behind her sassy thrill ride "Saltburn."

With the expansion of Robbie, Elordi and LuckyChap, a decent large numbers of the essential "Saltburn" players are formally rejoined for the new film. Additionally, Barry Keoghan, who played the protagonist, a bathwater-slurping con man, recently stated to Variety that he would be interested in joining the cast. I'm there for Emerald whenever she touches something. She's mind blowing," he said.

Robbie has additionally been vocal in supporting Fennell's remarkable sensibilities subsequent to delivering both the producer's motion pictures. " Emerald drenches you into a world so rapidly. She's so marvelous at tone and plot," Robbie expressed considering "Saltburn's" additional stunning scenes in a January interview with Assortment. " She gets in your mind and she sort of takes advantage of its most corrupted pieces, so that you're complicit in the story. That was the water cooler moment, and people still talk about it two weeks later.

In any case, crowds have been sitting tight for the second Robbie would show up on camera in one of Fennell's movies. Carey Mulligan was selected for the best entertainer Oscar for featuring in "Promising Young lady" — a substantial job Robbie conceded was a "hard one to move to one side for" — and Keoghan and Elordi started to lead the pack for "Saltburn," with supporting jobs for Mulligan and Rosamund Pike. Appears to be the third time was the appeal

Robbie's more quick "Barbie"- follow-up is a featuring job in Kogonada's "A Major Striking Lovely Excursion," due out May 2025, while LuckyChap's (which she helped to establish with Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara) latest film, "My Old Ass," is in theaters now and the organization's initial introduction to live theater, the off-Broadway play "The Large Gay Celebration," as of late sent off. Elordi next appears in Justin Kurzel's "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" and Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" following his breakout year with "Saltburn" and his portrayal of Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola's "Priscilla."

Entertainment 360, CAA, Aran Michael Management, attorney Jeff Bernstein, and Narrative are Robbie's legal counsel. Elordi is addressed by Gersh. Fennell is addressed by UTA and Diversion 360.

Cutoff time was first to report fresh insight about Robbie, Elordi and LuckyChap's contribution in the undertaking.