UPDATED with official trailer: Warner Bros on Thursday released the official trailer for Wuthering Heights, writer-director Emerald Fennell‘s take on Emily Brontë‘s gothic romance novel that stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.
The pic is gearing up for a Valentine’s Weekend 2026 premiere in theaters.
Brontë’s 1847 novel follows two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and the turbulent relationship they have with the Earnshaws’ foster son, Heathcliff. At the core, as has been noted after the release of the teaser a couple months ago, is the steamy, forbidden relationship between Catherine Earnshaw (Robbie) and Heathcliff (Elordi).
Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell also star.
Check out the new trailer above. The pic hits U.S. theaters on February 13.
PREVIOUSLY, September 3: The teaser trailer for director Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic period tale of love and longing, Wuthering Heights, has dropped and let’s just say it’s more Bridgerton than Downton Abbey.
The film features the red-hot pairing of Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, and it does not look to waste its opportunities for onscreen romantic combustion.
The trailer opens with a typical establishing shot of an estate on the West Yorkshire moors, then a beautiful close up of Robbie and then, suddenly, a very sensual tight shot of two female hands kneading bread.
From there we see, interspersed between more staid images, a bare, sweaty back; a shirtless Elordi handling hay in a stable; more kneading of bread; fingers running through egg yokes; Robbie’s character putting her fingers in the mouth of Elordi’s; a bodice being tightened; a bodice being cut away; more fingers in mouths; a woman having horse tack placed on her face; more shirtless Elordi; the duo face-to-face about to kiss; and, of course, a finger in the mouth of a fish.
The original novel by Brontë is considered by many to be one of the great pieces of literature when it was published in 1847. The original story follows two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and the turbulent relationship they have with the Earnshaws’ foster son, Heathcliff.
Robbie stars as Catherine Earnshaw and Elordi plays Heathcliff. Fennell wrote, directed and produces. Robbie also produces through her LuckyChap. It marks LuckyChap and Fennell’s third collaboration together. Robbie’s company also produced her pic Saltburn and Promising Young Woman, which won Fennell an Oscar for original screenplay.
Fennell previously faced backlash for casting a white actor as Heathcliff, who is described in the book as a “dark-skinned gipsy” and a “lascar,” a dated term meaning a sailor hailing from India or Southeast Asia. Much of the source material deals with the implications of Heathcliff’s look and the intricate racialized and colonial dynamics within his adopted family (as much as his class standing and lack of known family), as he is routinely abused and bullied by Catherine’s brother. Further discontentment also stemmed from Fennell’s general spearheading of the project, given her affinity for the salacious and the fact that the pic is not billed as a modern retelling.
Elordi told Deadline this spring of the production, “The performances from everyone — it’s breathtaking,” he said. “It’s an incredible romance. It’s a true epic. It’s visually beautiful. The script is beautiful. The costumes are incredible.”
Studio on the project is MRC, which finances the pic. Warner Bros Motion Pictures Group won distribution rights in a bidding war. The film will hit theaters on Feb. 13, 2026.
