Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi lead the Saltburn writer-director’s Charli xcx-soundtracked take on Emily Brontë’s novel, referred to as ‘the greatest love story of all time’
Emerald Fennell’s vision for Wuthering Heights is coming into focus.
The first full-length trailer for the Saltburn writer-director’s already controversial adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel sketches out an epic love story – “the greatest love story of all time”, according to a title card – beyond the erotic visuals of the first trailer.
The trailer sees Brontë’s star-crossed lovers, Catherine (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) meeting first as children, then becoming tangled in a torturous love affair as adults in the West Yorkshire moors. “What would you do, Heathcliff, if you were rich?” Robbie’s Cathy asks Elordi’s Heathcliff. “I suppose I’d do what all rich men do,” he answers. “Live in a big house, be cruel to my servants, take a wife.”
As in the book – the only novel completed by Brontë – Cathy marries the wealthy Edgar Linton (Shazad Latif) to retain her social status, causing a devastated Heathcliff to flee and vow revenge. But the two struggle with their feelings and, indeed, the trailer includes several clips of kissing and crying in the rain to a new song created by Charli xcx, Chains of Love, as part of a new album to be released with the film in February.
