Wuthering Heights Movie's Book Faithfulness Gets Warning From Casting Director: "There's Definitely Going To Be Some English Lit Fans That Are Not Going To Be Happy"

The faithfulness of 2026's Wuthering Heights has been addressed by the casting director. The upcoming reimagining of the iconic 1847 novel by Emily Brontë is the next movie written and directed by Prommising Young Woman and Saltburn's Emerald Fennell. Fennell's Wuthering Heights adaptation stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as legendary characters Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff respectively, opposite an ensemble cast that includes Hong Chau as Nelly Dean, Shazad Latif as Edgar Linton, Alison Oliver as Isabella Linton, Charlotte Mellington as Young Catherine, Owen Cooper as Young Heathcliff, and Vy Nguyen as Young Nelly.