When you’re in a state of amorous delusion, everything is romantic, which is perhaps why Emerald Fennell uses Charli XCX’s “everything is romantic” featuring Caroline Polachek to set the scene in the first teaser trailer for her adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Margot Robbie, playing Cathy, zones out reminiscing on tactile memories — hands kneading dough, a rippling back, a finger slipping into a fish’s mouth — as she loses herself to the memories of Heathcliff, played here by a bearded and dirty Jacob Elordi.

The first glances at the film had people decrying the actors’ ages and costumes, but it’s immediately clear from the contemporary needle drop that Fennell is not doing any old regular Brontë adaptation. She’s taking one of history’s most lush and twisted Gothic romances and making it even more lush and twisted and Gothic and, yes, romantic. More remarkable than the overt horniness is the styling: Fennell appears to have significantly upped her game when it comes to flamboyant costuming (Robbie in particular wears several gigantic gowns — in one shot with red-lens sunglasses) and massive, highly decorated sets alongside the haunted, rainy moors. The film is slated for a Valentine’s Day release, so start lacing up your corset now.

Drive me mad. “Wuthering Heights” comes to theaters Valentine’s Day. pic.twitter.com/n4UNA1nKmh

— WutheringHeightsMovie (@wuthering_hts) September 3, 2025

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 The sensual trailer for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights teases hands in mouth, hands on bodies, and hands in fish.