An adaptation by Emerald Fennell uses Charli XCX's "everything is romantic" featuring Caroline Polachek to soundtrack a teaser that frames Wuthering Heights as intensely sensual and dreamlike. Margot Robbie portrays Cathy, who zones out into tactile memories—kneading dough, a rippling back, a finger slipping into a fish's mouth—while Jacob Elordi appears bearded and dirty as Heathcliff. The contemporary needle drop signals a deliberate departure from traditional Brontë adaptations. The film amplifies Gothic romance through overt sensuality, flamboyant costuming, gigantic gowns and red-lens sunglasses, and massive, highly decorated sets set against haunted, rainy moors. The film opens on Valentine's Day.
When you're in a state of amorous delusion, everything is romantic, which is perhaps why Emerald Fennell uses Charli XCX's "everything is romantic" featuring Caroline Polachek to set the scene in the first teaser trailer for her adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Margot Robbie, playing Cathy, zones out reminiscing on tactile memories - hands kneading dough, a rippling back, a finger slipping into a fish's mouth - as she loses herself to the memories of Heathcliff, played here by a bearded and dirty Jacob Elordi.
The first glances at the film had people decrying the actors' ages and costumes, but it's immediately clear from the contemporary needle drop that Fennell is not doing any old regular Brontë adaptation. She's taking one of history's most lush and twisted Gothic romances and making it even more lush and twisted and Gothic and, yes, romantic. More remarkable than the overt horniness is the styling:
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