Emerging into the game is none other than Emerald Fennell, who is attempting to get her paws on yet another corner of pop culture lore, this time teaming up with Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Charli XCX, and an amount of desperate, all-consuming passion worthy of an actual monsoon, for what appears to be the full trailer for Warner Bros. “Wuthering Heights”.
The clip introduces Cathy and Heathcliff as children, played by Owen Cooper and Charlotte Mellington, before they mature into the characters that make up Robbie’s Cathy, an incredibly ambitious woman for her time. Elordi’s Heathcliff, who is bone-deep in his feral qualities, as this spark of him is full of childlike innocence, but what follows is as if it’s taken from a love letter doused in gasoline and set alight.
The trailer features an original track by Charli XCX titled “Chains of Love.” This is an energetic mix of heartache, hysteria, and teenage rage in the Brontë-esque kind of genre that catapults this trailer into an operatic meltdown state! Charli is most definitely playing for real here, as is director Fennell, because this is what love looks like: electrifying, painful, tempting, and blowing up!
The point at which Cathy asks Heathcliff what he plans to do if he were wealthy is where all the conflict resides. Margot Robbie asks this question as if she knows she is about to mess up both of their worlds. Jacob Elordi delivers this line in what is basically deadpan frostiness. Live in a large house. Treat my servants poorly. Take a wife. This is the kind of line that makes a man an antihero as well as an issue in the future.
When Cathy reveals that she is marrying Edgar Linton solely to maintain her social class, Heathcliff begins his lifelong vendetta as a result of this heartbreak. Heathcliff, if anyone, is the one who deserves to unleash his heartbreak to wage intergenerational warfare. That is precisely what Fennell chooses to allow to flourish in Heathcliff’s obsession.
The trailer provides fans with what everyone really came for, anyway. Cathy and Heathcliff are fighting the rain. Cathy and Heathcliff are kissing in the rain. Cathy and Heathcliff are gazing at each other, as they already know they have committed thirty emotional crimes in their past. As Charli’s song reaches her final crescendo, Heathcliff leans in to whisper his final plea. Kiss me, then, and together, let’s get damned. This would be a quote for Tumblr edits, vows at a wedding, a therapy room, and much later, an academic study.
Fennell stacks Robbie and Elordi up against a lineup of skills more common to an episode of SNL than a period drama, but they’re sharply up to the challenge. Hong Chau is game as always as the perpetually beleaguered Nelly Dean, as is Shazad Latif as Edgar Linton in his debut as an actual human being, who is neither menacing nor confusing for more than a few frames at a time in a deliberately confusing introduction to his characterization as Edgar, Edgar’s character seeming to crop up out of nowhere, characterized by an overly mannered accent despite his dynamite performance in other facets of his hiring as Edgar, Edgar’s introduction complete of complexity in his characterization as Edgar but confusing as to his actual emotional motivation as Edgar, Edgar’s troubled emotional state leading to him abandoning his troubled past, as Edgar’s introduction to his trouble somewhat leaves his audience in what feels like confusion as to his idea of his troubled past as
Charli XCX’s original music ties the entire project together, promising to provide a soundtrack that combines the anguish of the nineteenth century with the sorrow of synth pop in the twenty-first century.
This entirely fresh adaptation of Brontë’s 1847 novel is a film written, directed, and produced by her, marking her third major-screen project after “Promising Young Woman” and “Saltburn.” Judging from this trailer, she is definitely set to break every rule she’s previously set for herself, as she is set to create a romance so toxic, so alluring, so epically dramatic that viewers will leave cinemas prepared to slip back into poisonous relationships they escaped years earlier.
Warner Bros. Pictures, in association with MRC, presents “Wuthering Heights.” The film will release in theaters nationwide on February 13, 2026. For international viewers, it’s set to roll out from February 11.
Gothic romance is in, and it’s wearing Margot Robbie’s corset, Jacob Elordi’s scowl, and Charli XCX’s tears. The moors beckon. Rain is pouring down. The star-crossed lovers are prepared. A review of ‘Wuthering Heights’ for Valentine’s Day – aptly timed, I think. Tissues, psychotherapists, and people who won’t mind fist-fights in the rain – that’s what I’ll carry to the check.
Check out the brand-new official trailer below!
