‘Wuthering Heights’ Trailer: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi Ignite Emerald Fennell’s Seductive, Gothic Reimagining
Jacob Elordi (left) and Margot Robbie in the 'Wuthering Heights' trailer. COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.
Emerald Fennell turns Emily Brontë’s stormy classic into a feverish, combustible romance anchored by Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s smoldering chemistry.
Emerald Fennell has never shied away from the provocative. Whether it was the razor-edged psychology of Promising Young Woman or the poisonous decadence of Saltburn, her work pulses with appetite, danger and a wicked sense of curiosity. With the newly released trailer for her adaptation of Wuthering Heights, she appears to be doubling down on those instincts, shaping Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel into something feral, sensual and defiantly cinematic. And with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi at the center of it, this is poised to be one of 2026’s most feverishly discussed films.
Warner Bros. unveiled the official trailer this morning, revealing what Fennell has been quietly constructing for months: a Valentine’s weekend event that pushes Brontë’s gothic romance into a heightened emotional register. This isn’t the prim, corseted literary adaptation that audiences have come to expect. The trailer plays like a love story on the brink of combustion, flickering between longing and violence, devotion and hunger.
Robbie stars as Catherine Earnshaw, the wild and restless soul whose bond with Heathcliff has defined the novel for generations. Elordi plays Heathcliff, the orphaned outsider whose love for Catherine curdles into obsession. What Brontë wrote as a turbulent, almost mythic connection, Fennell renders with tactile immediacy. Bodies, breath, textures and impulse drive the images more than dialogue. The result is closer to something out of Bridgerton’s fever-dream sequences than a traditional period drama — though with a darker, stranger, more primal energy that is unmistakably hers.
Margot Robbie in the 'Wuthering Heights' - COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.
The trailer wastes no time signaling that intention. A soft pastoral opening gives way to a montage of charged, physical imagery: hands sinking into dough, skin slick with sweat, the tightening and cutting of bodices, fingers brushing mouths, hay dust drifting through slanted light. It’s intimate, sensory and unabashedly erotic. Fennell appears far more interested in the animalistic yearning beneath the story than any tidy moral framing. The inclusion of Charli XCX’s original song “Chains of Love,” written specifically for the film, ties the entire thing together with a contemporary pulse that enhances rather than disrupts the classic material.
Fennell has said very little publicly about her approach, but the footage speaks volumes. She’s leaning into the novel’s volatility — the way its love story is as destructive as it is intoxicating, how the Yorkshire moors act as a psychological mirror to its characters, and how desire can feel like both salvation and ruin. And she’s doing it with an ensemble stacked with bold, textured actors: Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell.
This marks the third collaboration between Fennell and Robbie’s LuckyChap, following Promising Young Woman and Saltburn. Their creative partnership continues to be one of the most potent in contemporary filmmaking, with LuckyChap backing stories that are deeply uncompromising and designed to provoke conversation. Fennell’s direction, Robbie’s producing instincts and Elordi’s ongoing ascent make Wuthering Heights feel like another lightning strike for the company.
Jacob Elordi in 'Wuthering Heights'. COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.
The project hasn’t arrived without controversy. Fennell faced public criticism for casting Elordi — a white actor — as Heathcliff, a character described in the book with racialized language tied to his ambiguous origins. Much of the novel’s tension stems from how Heathcliff’s appearance fuels class and colonial prejudice within the Earnshaw household. Whether Fennell’s adaptation directly engages with those dynamics or reinterprets them remains to be seen, but the director’s track record suggests she’s approaching the material with intention, not indifference.
What is clear is that the film’s aesthetic is ravishing. The trailer is constructed with the confidence of a filmmaker who knows exactly how to seduce an audience: brief glances, tactile imagery, sharp cuts, breathless pacing. Elordi himself recently called the film “a true epic,” praising the performances, script and visual ambition. If the trailer is any indication, he isn’t exaggerating. This looks like a romance fueled by devastation and devotion, not politeness — a story allowed to be as messy and hypnotic as it always was on the page.
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The film is financed by MRC, with Warner Bros. Motion Pictures Group taking global distribution after a competitive bidding war. The studio has clearly positioned this as a major release, slotting it for Valentine’s weekend on February 13, 2026 — a prime date that underscores their confidence in its commercial and cultural impact.
If Emerald Fennell has proven anything, it’s that she knows how to make a film people talk about. With Wuthering Heights, she’s taking one of literature’s most enduring love stories and stripping it of restraint, focusing instead on the raw nerve where love and destruction meet. Robbie and Elordi look incandescent together, and the film’s trailer suggests a lush, intoxicating plunge into obsession.
February 2026 can’t come soon enough.
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