Jacob Elordi’s career is reaching new heights…
The 27-year-old half-Spanish Australian actor and Saltburn star will star opposite Margot Robbie in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights film.
LuckyChap will produce Fennell’s upcoming feature film adaptation based on the iconic romance novel by Emily Brontë. Besides being the studio on the project, MRC also will finance the film.
This marks LuckyChap and Fennell’s third collaboration together, having also produced her most recent pic Saltburn and Promising Young Woman, which won Fennell an Oscar for original screenplay.
Robbie is set to star as Catherine Earnshaw, and Elordi will play Heathcliff.
Fennell is set to write, direct and produce.
The film is in pre-production gearing up for a UK shoot in 2025.
The original novel by Brontë is considered by many to be one of the great pieces of literature when it was published in 1850. The original story follows two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons and the turbulent relationship they have with the Earnshaws’ foster son, Heathcliff.
Plot details on Fennell’s adaptation are unknown at this time.
Wuthering Heights reunites Elordi and Fennell, with the actor starring in her most recent film Saltburn.
The Swift Horses and Euphoria is set to star in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, directed by Justin Kurzell. He also will star in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.
He played the iconic Elvis Presley in last year’s Priscilla, directed by Sofia Coppola.
