Wuthering Heights, everything about the film with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi: the love story that becomes obsession
The adaptation by Emerald Fennell starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.
Wuthering Heights marks the return to directing for Emerald Fennell with a project explicitly inspired by Emily Brontë's famous novel. The film is conceived as a reinterpretation of the original work, entrusted to a director who also wrote the screenplay and who tackles the literary material by focusing on the relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff. At the heart of the story is a relationship that evolves from romantic feeling to an obsessive bond, set within a narrative that emphasizes desire and the loss of emotional control.
The project stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, called upon to embody one of the most iconic couples in 19th-century literature. Production is handled by Lie Still and LuckyChap Entertainment, with Robbie herself directly involved behind the scenes. Distribution is entrusted to Warner Bros. Pictures, in collaboration with MRC.
The plot of Wuthering Heights, 2026 film
The film tells the relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff, two characters bound by a feeling that develops as an intense and forbidden passion. Their relationship, instead of finding a stable form, progressively transforms into an obsession that irreversibly marks their lives. The story moves along an emotional path dominated by desire, love, and madness.
When Wuthering Heights is released, release date in Italy
The release of Wuthering Heights in Italian cinemas is set for February 12, 2026. Distribution is handled by Warner Bros. Pictures, which will bring the film to cinemas around Valentine's Day.
The cast of Wuthering Heights: actors, actresses and characters
Margot Robbie (also known for I, Tonya, Bombshell, Barbie, Babylon, The Wolf of Wall Street, Focus, Suicide Squad, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) plays Cathy, while Jacob Elordi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Frankenstein, Saltburn, Euphoria, The Kissing Booth) takes on the role of Heathcliff. The cast also includes Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, and Alison Oliver, joined by Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell. The film thus brings together an ensemble that alternates established performers with more recent faces, called upon to confront characters deeply rooted in literary imagination.
- Margot Robbie: Catherine Earnshaw
- Jacob Elordi: Heathcliff
- Charlotte Mellington: Young Catherine
- Owen Cooper: Young Heathcliff
- Hong Chau: Nelly Dean
- Vy Nguyen: Young Nelly
- Shazad Latif: Edgar Linton
- Alison Oliver: Isabella Linton
- Martin Clunes: Mr. Earnshaw
- Ewan Mitchell: Man with the whip
Wuthering Heights, from novel to film
The film originates from the novel Wuthering Heights, published in 1847 by Emily Brontë (an English writer and poet of the Victorian era), today considered an absolute masterpiece of world literature. The adaptation by Emerald Fennell (director of Promising Young Woman and Saltburn) is not presented as a simple literal transposition, but as a reinterpretation that starts from the original work to focus on the emotional and psychological dimension of the protagonists. The relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff is thus rethought as a destructive force, capable of transforming love into an obsessive bond, without further details having been released on the degree of narrative fidelity to the original text.
The trailer for Wuthering Heights
The first official trailer for Wuthering Heights was released on September 3, 2025. The promotional material offers the first glimpse of the film, anticipating its atmosphere and visual setting, without providing further detailed narrative information.