Out on the wily, windy moors... Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights is starting to take shape. Having announced back in July that her follow-up to last year's spicy satire Saltburn will be a fresh take on Emily Brontë's literary classic, everybody's favourite British provoc-auteur has it seems found her Cathy and Heathcliff — and found them down under, no less. Per Deadline's reporting, Aussie stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are set to take on the roles of the doomed lovers in Fennell's upcoming film, which is currently in pre-production and eyeing a 2025 UK shoot.

For Elordi, who'll be following in Tom Hardy, James Howson, and Ralph Fiennes' footsteps to bring Brontë's Byronic hero to life here, Wuthering Heights will be a quick reunion with his Saltburn director. And given the themes of that similarly Gothic tale — passion, revenge, obsession, death — and Elordi's tragic part to play within it,...