Wuthering Heights fans rage as Saltburn director Emerald Fennell announces her upcoming film adaptation - the 10th time in 30 years for Emily Bronte's classic
- Director, 38, shared a quote from the 1847 Gothic novel on her X account
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Wuthering Heights fans have been left furious after Emerald Fennell announced she is working on a new adaptation.
The Saltburn director, 38, revealed earlier this week that Emily Brontë's 1847 Gothic romance is her next film project.
Although the mother-of-two didn't disclose any cast members, she did share a graphic of two hand drawn skeletons and a quote from the book.
Using a quote from Heathcliff's monologue following Cathy's death, the graphic read: 'Be with me always. Take any form. Drive me mad.'
However, the announcement was met with a mixed response from fans - with some arguing that there were already too many Wuthering Heights adaptations.
Emerald Fennell is set to direct a new movie adaptation of Wuthering Heights, it was announced on Tuesday
One replied: 'I guess we are getting a new adaptation every 10 years.'
Another added: 'The world does not need Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights. I'm declaring holy war.'
Meanwhile, a third said: 'With all due respect, there have been a lot of adaptations already.'
A fourth replied: 'Can we start a petition for her to not?'
What's more, a fifth joked that the movie was her 'sleep paralysis demon'.
Emerald Fennell will be the 10th director to adapt Wuthering Heights into a film or TV show since 1970.
Timothy Dalton famously starred as Heathcliff in the 1970 critically-acclaimed adaptation, which was directed by Robert Fuest.
Ralph Fiennes then took on the role in the 1992 Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights opposite Juliette Binoche.
Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall in the 1970 version of Wuthering Heights
Co-stars Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes in 1992's Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley as Heathcliff and Cathy in ITV's 2009 adaptation
The novel has been adapted numerous times, the most recent starring Kaya Scodelario as the tragic heroine Catherine Earnshaw in 2011
In 2009, Tom Hardy appeared in ITV's adaptation alongside his wife Charlotte Riley, who played Cathy. The couple married five years later.
Three years after this TV series, Skins actress Kaya Scodelario starred as Cathy in a film version directed by Andrea Arnold.
Deadline has confirmed Emerald will be working with studio MRC for the upcoming film but no actors have yet been confirmed.
The 1847 novel was published by Emily Brontë under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, one year before her death.
It follows the story of an orphan, Heathcliff, who is taken in by the Earnshaw family, he later grows close to their daughter and his foster sister, Cathy.
The first known adaptation was from A. V. Bramble in 1920, with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon’s 1939 version being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Born in 1818 in West Yorkshire, Emily was the fifth of six children, and spent most of her short life in the moorland village of Haworth, where her Irish father Patrick was curate.
But life dealt Emily a series of terrible blows as she lost her mother when she was three, then two older sisters when she was seven.
Following her trauma, the novelist retreated into a fantasy world, writing stories and poetry with her siblings.
The writer poured her suffering and passion into Wuthering Heights, a wrenching love story as raw as the Yorkshire Moors on which it's set.
It was in 2014 when Emerald sprang to fame in as boisterous redheaded nurse Patsy Mount on Call The Midwife.
