
Could Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights be set in the 2020s? Yesterday, it was announced that Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi will lead her adaptation of the classic Emily Brontë novel, playing Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff respectively. It stoked confusion: how will two of the hottest actors with iPhone face pull off such a famous period piece? Well, Jacob’s done the 50s (Priscilla) and Margot has done Mary Queen of Scots, so it is possible. But what’s more alluring is the prospect of Emerald’s Wuthering Heights not being set in the 1800s, but in contemporary Britain. A likely stunt for the Saltburn director to pull.