Saltburn's Emerald Fennell adapting "Wuthering Heights"
Provocateur Emerald Fennell's most recent film, last year's opinion splitting, discourse stoking satire Saltburn, took viewers into a Gothically infused world of passion, revenge, death, and obsession. And if the Promising Young Woman filmmaker's most recent post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is anything to go by, then it looks like her next film will follow in a similar vein. Taking to the social media site on Friday evening, Fennell shared a striking Katie Buckley drawn illustration adorned with the words Wuthering Heights — A Film By Emerald Fennell, along with a quote from Emily Brontë's 1847 Gothic romance. Check it out below.
Be with me always — Take any form — Drive me mad" reads the illustration, which features a creepy potion-brewing skeleton with distended limbs. These are the recognisable words of Brontë's Byronic hero Heathcliff in the novel, which centres around the tumultuous history of the titular farmhouse and the destructive romance embarked upon by Heathcliff (another Liverpudlian protagonist for Fennell after Saltburn's Prescot-born Oliver Quick) and his adoptive sister Catherine Earnshaw. Described on release as "a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors", the subversive, transgressive nature of Brontë's first and only novel seems a natural fit within Fennell's own milieu of taboo-busting, provocative cinematic stories. And in terms of setting, "haunted rural homestead in the English countryside" is one Fennell and fans of her work will feel right at home in after Saltburn.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 17, 2024 4:55 PM
|
We need the Aspie Face Troll to analyse her face for us, especially the eye area.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 17, 2024 3:36 PM
|
Good. Anything to hasten the end of this talent free fat ass' career is okay by me.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 17, 2024 3:53 PM
|
r2 Agreed, I wanted to add that her skin looks really nice. I aspire to this level of bright even complexion, but the brighteners are taking their sweet time, been using them for two years now.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 17, 2024 3:55 PM
|
Exfoliate and use niacinamide and vitamin C in your facial products and your skin will brighten up.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 17, 2024 3:59 PM
|
I would love an adaptation of Wuthering Heights that captures the same ineffable quality that the book does.
The book is so utterly engaging and pulls you into the story in a way that no film attempt has ever been able to do.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 17, 2024 3:59 PM
|
r5 I use all that, plus 1% retinol. 30% glycolic acid, 10% niacinamide, 30% pure vitamin C, mechanical exfoliators every day... the best of the best. Not to mention the collagen and copper and astaxanthin and low molecular weight sodium hyaluronate pills to replenish my skin from the inside.
I think the problem is that I'd been neglecting my skin for 30 years before that, which is why it's taking so long now. Never ever used an SPF on my face and now I'm paying the price.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 17, 2024 4:18 PM
|
R7 you’re doing too much. And you definitely don’t need daily mechanical exfoliation. Let your skin heal.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 17, 2024 4:55 PM
|
