You could say this trailer is getting ribbed for your pleasure.
The teaser trailer for a new “Wuthering Heights” film dropped on Wednesday, and its gratuitously sexual vibes are inspiring a whole lot of hilarious snark online.
Fans of the Gothic literature classic skewered the upcoming movie, helmed by “Promising Young Woman” director Emerald Fennell and starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, for everything from its casting to the fact that pop star Charli xcx provides original music.
Fennell’s film is an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel, which centers on the romance between Heathcliff (played by Elordi) and his teenage foster sister, Catherine Earnshaw (Robbie), that eventually descends into cruelty and bitterness.
Fans of the book found glaring inconsistencies between the source material and the trailer, and particularly took issue with the casting. Robbie, who plays Catherine, is far older than the book’s protagonist. Some fans also took issue with Elordi’s casting as Heathcliff. Although Heathcliff’s race is never explicitly stated in the novel, he is described as “dark-skinned,” and scholars have debated his ethnicity. The character was portrayed as Black in a 2011 film adaptation.
