Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi will play lead roles in a new film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel Wuthering Heights.
The Barbie star, 34, who is currently pregnant with her first child, will play Catherine Earnshaw, while the Saltburn actor, 27, will play her iconic lover Heathcliff, according to Deadline.
The film will be directed by Emerald Fennell, 38, who also directed Saltburn.
Margot’s LuckyChap company will produce the film. LuckyChap also produced two other Emerald films: Saltburn and Promising Young Woman.
The film is currently in pre-production and will shoot in the UK next year.
Margot Robbie, 34, and Jacob Elordi, 27, will play leading roles in a film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel Wuthering Heights; (l.) Margot, seen in March; (r.) Jacob, seen in 2023
Plot details have not yet been revealed.
Margot and Jacob know each other well, as they star in the new short film, See You at 5, directed by Call Me by Your Name’s Luca Guadagnino, for the new Chanel No. 5 campaign.
Margot recently gushed about him in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaarsaying: “It’s wonderful. And like you said, I worked with him on Saltburn as a producer and an actor. So I haven’t shared the screen with him before, but I know I’ve seen him on set, I’ve been around him on set, and he’s just… he’s got an incredible presence.”
“He’s a movie star, he’s got charisma. He’s got a commanding bearing. He’s also very charming and he’s from the same state as me in Australia. We’re an hour away from each other, but he’s from Brisbane and I’m from the Gold Coast.”
‘Even though the point of our film is that our paths cross and we miss each other, it still feels like we did the campaign together.’
Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, published in 1850, is considered a masterpiece of English literature.
The original story focuses on the Earnshaws, the Lintons, and their turbulent relationship with Heathcliff, an adopted son of the Earnshaws.
Heathcliff is one of the most infamous and complex romantic heroes in Western literature, known for his melancholic nature and his obsession with Cathy.
The Barbie star, who is currently pregnant with her first child, will play Catherine Earnshaw, while the Saltburn actor will play her iconic lover Heathcliff, according to Deadline; spotted in September
The film is currently in pre-production and will shoot in the UK next year. Plot details have not yet been revealed; Jacob will be seen in 2023.
The film will be directed by Emerald Fennell, 38, who also directed Saltburn; it is due out in February.
There have been numerous film adaptations of the book over the years, perhaps the best known being the 1939 version directed by William Wyler and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier.
The most recent adaptation is Andrea Arnold’s 2011 film, starring Kaya Scodelario and James Howson.
Margot recently starred in the hit film Barbie, which grossed more than $1.4 billion worldwide and earned eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture.
Her next project is Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, scheduled for release in May.
The Australian beauty is currently expecting the arrival of her first child with husband Tom Ackerley, 34.
She and her film producing partner also announced last week that they were producing The Sims movie.
Robbie and Acklerley are producing through their LuckyChap Productions banner.
Like Barbie, The Sims has its roots in an iconic franchise, whose first video game debuted in 2000 and has since sold over 200 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time.
The star has continued to work throughout her pregnancy.
Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, published in 1850, is considered a masterpiece of English literature. The 1939 film version was directed by William Wyler and starred Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier; it is seen in a frame
The most recent adaptation is Andrea Arnold’s 2011 film, starring Kaya Scodelario and James Howson, as well as Shannon Beer and Solomon Glave; Shannon and Solomon seen as young Cathy and Heathcliff.
Earlier this month, she looked absolutely radiant in a fitted grey dress as she posed at a screening of her new film My Old A** in Los Angeles.
She also announced an exciting new milestone in her career. After being a Chanel ambassador for over six years, the Australian is the new face of the French fashion house’s most famous fragrance, Chanel N°5.
She has been a Chanel ambassador since 2018 and was the face of Chanel Gabrielle perfume in 2019.
Meanwhile, Elordi recently portrayed the iconic Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla.
He will also star in Justin Kurzell’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.
