EXCLUSIVE: In what's gearing up to be an A-list pairing for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights film, MRC is tapping Oscar-nominated actress and producer Margot Robbie and BAFTA-nominated actor Jacob Elordi to star within the adaptation of the traditional novel. MRC can also be setting LuckyChap to produce Fennell’s upcoming characteristic movie adaptation, Wuthering Heights, based mostly on the long-lasting romance novel by Emily Brontë. Besides being the studio on the mission, MRC will even finance the pic.
This marks LuckyChap and Fennell’s third collaboration collectively, having additionally produced her most up-to-date pic Saltburn and Promising Young Woman, which received Fennell an Oscar for authentic screenplay.
Robbie is ready to star as Catherine Earnshaw, and Elordi will play Heathcliff. Fennell is ready to write, direct and produce. The movie is in pre-production gearing up for a UK shoot in 2025.
The authentic novel by Brontë is taken into account by many to be one of the nice items of literature when it was revealed in 1850. The authentic story follows two households, the Earnshaws and the Lintons and the turbulent relationship they've with the Lintons foster son, Heathcliff.
Plot particulars on Fennell’s adaptation are unknown at the moment.
Following breakout directing debut with Promising Young Woman, Fennell has become one these multi-hyphenates the place anytime her mission is introduced, the trade is buzzing. So when she broke the information on her social media that Wuthering Heights could be that subsequent mission, everybody was curious at who may play the 2 iconic characters and now the city has that reply with two of largest stars.
Robbie was final seen starring and producing Barbie, which not solely went on to develop into the largest movie of 2023 grossing $1.4 billion on the box-office but in addition incomes eight Oscar nominations with Robbie incomes a producing nod for Best Picture. She will subsequent be seen starring in Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey releasing May 2025.
Wuthering Heights reunites Elordi and Fennell, with actor lately starring in her most up-to-date pic Saltburn. As for what's up subsequent for Elordi, he's set to star in The Narrow Road to the Deep North directed by Justin Kurzell. He will even star in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. Most lately he performed the long-lasting Elvis Presley in Priscilla directed by Sofia Coppola.
MRC is the main impartial leisure studio behind some of the world’s most iconic, award-winning, and prestigious movies, tv collection, and documentaries. Last 12 months, MRC was the studio behind Saltburn, American Fiction, and Fair Play, and is thought for hit TV collection similar to Poker Face, Terminal List, Ted, Ozark and House of Cards.
LuckyChap is a number one leisure firm that produced the worldwide phenomenon Barbie, which grossed over $1.4 billion on the field workplace and garnered eight Academy Award nominations. They additionally produced the critically acclaimed and award successful movies I, Tonya, Promising Young Woman, and Saltburn and on the tv facet, they produced the hit restricted collection Maid and the comedy Dollface. LuckyChap’s most up-to-date movie, My Old Ass, is in theatres now and was acquired by Amazon/MGM after rave opinions at Sundance. LuckyChap is at the moment producing the off Broadway play The Big Gay Jamboree, which marks their first foray into theatre.
Robbie is represented by Entertainment 360, CAA, Aran Michael Management, Attorney Jeff Bernstein. Elordi is represented by Gersh and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Fennell is represented by UTA and Entertainment 360.
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