EXCLUSIVE: In what is gearing up to be an A-catalog pairing for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights movie, MRC is tapping Oscar-nominated actress and creater Margot Robbie and BAFTA-nominated actor Jacob Elordi to star in the changeation of the classic novel. MRC is also setting LuckyChap to create Fennell’s upcoming feature film changeation, Wuthering Heights, based on the iconic romance novel by Emily Brontë. Besides being the studio on the project, MRC will also finance the pic.
This labels LuckyChap and Fennell’s third collaboration together, having also created her most recent pic Saltburn and Promising Young Woman, which won Fennell an Oscar for innovative screentake part.
Robbie is set to star as Catherine Earnshaw, and Elordi will take part Heathcliff. Fennell is set to author, straightforward and create. The film is in pre-production gearing up for a UK shoot in 2025.
The innovative novel by Brontë is think abouted by many to be one of the fantastic pieces of literature when it was unveiled in 1850. The innovative story adheres two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons and the turbulent relationship they have with the Lintons nurture son, Heathcliff.
Plot details on Fennell’s changeation are ununderstandn at this time.
Follothriveg fractureout straightforwarding debut with Promising Young Woman, Fennell has turned into one those multi-hyphenates where anytime her project is declared, the industry is buzzing. So when she broke the recents on her social media that Wuthering Heights would be that next project, everyone was asking at who could take part the two iconic characters and now the town has that answer with two of hugegest stars.
Robbie was last seen starring and producing Barbie, which not only went on to become the hugegest film of 2023 grossing $1.4 billion at the box-office but also geting eight Oscar nominations with Robbie geting a producing nod for Best Picture. She will next be seen starring in Kogonada’s A Big Belderly Beautiful Journey releasing May 2025.
Wuthering Heights rejoins Elordi and Fennell, with actor recently starring in her most recent pic Saltburn. As for what is up next for Elordi, he is set to star in The Narrow Road to the Deep North straightforwarded by Justin Kurzell. He will also star in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. Most recently he take parted the iconic Elvis Presley in Priscilla straightforwarded by Sofia Coppola.
MRC is the directing autonomous delightment studio behind some of the world’s most iconic, award-thrivening, and prestigious films, television series, and recordaries. Last year, MRC was the studio behind Saltburn, American Fiction, and Fair Play, and is understandn for hit TV series such as Poker Face, Terminal List, Ted, Ozark and Hoemploy of Cards.
LuckyChap is a directing delightment company that created the global phenomenon Barbie, which grossed over $1.4 billion at the box office and garnered eight Academy Award nominations. They also created the criticpartner acclaimed and award thrivening films I, Tonya, Promising Young Woman, and Saltburn and on the television side, they created the hit restricted series Mhelp and the comedy Dollface. LuckyChap’s most recent film, My Old Ass, is in theatres now and was obtaind by Amazon/MGM after rave appraises at Sundance. LuckyChap is currently producing the off Broadway take part The Big Gay Jamunintelligente, which labels their first foray into theatre.
Robbie is recurrented by Entertainment 360, CAA, Aran Michael Management, Attorney Jeff Bernstein. Elordi is recurrented by Gersh and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Fennell is recurrented by UTA and Entertainment 360.
