“Saltburn” filmmaker Emerald Fennell has set her sights on an adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” the director announced on social media Friday.
The Oscar-winning “Promising Young Woman” screenwriter will next tackle the Emily Brontë novel, which was initially published in 1847 under her pen name “Ellis Bell.”
“Be with me always — Take any form — Drive me mad,” Fennell wrote on X, echoing a line from the novel.
Widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in English, “Wuthering Heights” is a gothic story that centers on anti-hero Heathcliff as he pursues revenge against the people who kept him away from his love, Cathy Earnshaw.
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