Erotic teaser trailer : Was a “Wuthering Heights” movie adaptation set to Charli XCX’s “Everything is romantic” on anyone’s 2025 bingo card?
Perhaps not, but fans of the “Brat” singer and Emily Brontë’s 1847 Gothic novel will soon convene in theaters on Valentine’s Day 2026 for director Emerald Fennell’s 2025 film adaptation of the book. (Charli also revealed “new original songs by me” are in the works ahead of the film’s release.)
Many book lovers put aside their summer reading on Wednesday, Sept. 3, to watch the long-awaited teaser trailer for the Warner Bros. movie starring “Barbie” star Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw and “Frankenstein” actor Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff. What the studio delivered was a minute and a half of steamy, erotic and brooding scenes between Elordi and Robbie.
“Do you want me to stop?” Elordi asks in the trailer as the two embrace in a dark hallway, to which Robbie replies, “No.”
“Drive me mad,” read a social media post with the trailer on X, quoting Heathcliff’s passionate plea over Catherine from the book text. The first movie poster for “Wuthering Heights” was also revealed on Wednesday with Robbie and Elordi embracing in a near-kiss.
Of course, social media was quick to flood the trailer’s YouTube comments with criticism and jokes, while others, naturally, swooned over Elordi’s appearance.
Fans liken ‘Wuthering Heights’ adaptation to ’50 Shades of Grey’ Erotic teaser trailer
The teaser trailer with Elordi’s Heathcliff − sideburns and all − shows multiple shots of the actor shirtless, his sweaty back and others of him embracing Robbie’s Catherine for a kiss.
“50 Shades of Brontë,” reads one YouTube comment, with another person adding: “I didn’t know Wuthering Heights was the fourth installment in the 50 Shades of Gray franchise!”
Another YouTube user pointed out the trailer’s pop song choice for a novel published in the 19th century: “Man this seems to be like made in a lab to cater to online twitter stans and people who want to make tiktok edits with the spicy scenes after… LOL everything is romantic too, i guess brat summer is eternal.”
Meanwhile, others leaned into the erotic nature of the snippet. “You all need to unclench,” wrote @JayElHarris on X. “This looks hot.” Erotic teaser trailer
Until next year, we’ll be waiting to see if Elordi hits the nail on the head with Heathcliff’s iconic plea: “I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
‘Wuthering Heights’ movie cast draws backlash
Last September, when casting for Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” adaptation first came to light, there was swift backlash on social media. Fans took particular issue with the casting of Elordi as Heathcliff, who is described at one point in the original 1847 novel as “dark-skinned.”
Previous adaptations of Brontë’s novel have also cast white actors, including Tom Hardy and Ralph Fiennes as Heathcliff. One exception is a 2011 film from Andrea Arnold, which cast a Black actor, James Howson, in the role. At the time, The Guardian reported he would be the first Black actor to play the character on film. Erotic teaser trailer
“In the book it was clear he wasn’t white-skinned,” Arnold told NPR in a 2012 interview. The director pointed to a line from the novel — “Who knows but your father was Emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen” — as evidence that the character is not white in an interview with IndieWire.
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“That’s not being said about somebody who’s from Yorkshire,” she told the outlet in 2012. “When he first arrives, he speaks a language they can’t understand. Hollywood started making this film a long time ago, and it’s actually surprising to me that no one has done it before.”
What is ‘Wuthering Heights’ about?
“Wuthering Heights,” the only novel written by Brontë, follows two families − the Earnshaws and the Lintons − living on the West Yorkshire moors and their messy familial relationships.
Written in a non-linear narrative structure, “Wuthering Heights” portrays the turbulent, passionate and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine. It begins when Catherine’s father takes in an orphaned Heathcliff to live with him and his two children, Catherine and her brother Hindley, at their estate, Wuthering Heights. Erotic teaser trailer
“Wuthering Heights” director Emerald Fennell made her directorial debut in 2020 with “Promising Young Woman” and in 2023 released “Saltburn,” also starring Elordi.
Source : USA Today
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