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You’d be forgiven for assuming the below photo is some sort of promo shot for Yellowjackets, a show that returns today and is actually about eating people. Nope! It’s a “first look” at Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, a novel which, at least in past iterations, definitely isn’t about cannibalism. This is the director of Saltburn and its cum-slurping bathtub scene we’re talking about though, so you never really know.
Wuthering Heights first look (courtesy of Warner Bros.)
The fact that one could confuse the new photo’s violent eroticism for cannibalism is likely intentional. We already knew that the tone of this film was likely to be capital-E Edgy. “There’s a scene in Wuthering Heights after Cathy dies when Heathcliff digs down to her coffin and tries to get to her. It’s very clear what he’s intending to do, which is to, at the very least touch her, kiss her. So it’s part of the Gothic tradition that sex and death are kind of intertwined,” the director previously told Time of her inspiration for a similar scene in Saltburn, months before Wuthering Heights was announced. It’s unclear how she’ll differentiate her actual Wuthering Heights from its more modern copy (it doesn’t help that Jacob Elordi stars in both), but we all knew she wasn’t going to do it by dialing back the sick-and-twisted factor.
Warner Bros. didn’t provide any new info to go with the image, but it kind of says it all already. What we do know as of this writing is that the film stars Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as tragic lovers Healthcliff and Catherine respectively, with Shazad Latif, Hong Chau, and Alison Oliver rounding out the cast. You may want to grab your copy of the Emily Brontë classic from the bookstore before the movie tie-in versions pop up. Or wait! We won’t judge (too hard).
