A new trailer has dropped for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming Hollywood adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 classic Wuthering Heights.

Compared to the first teaser, which was released a couple of months ago, the new trailer gives a more rounded picture of this tale of forbidden love and desire set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors.

The latest iteration of the period drama from the Saltburn and A Promising Young Woman director has been met with a mixed reception so far after many hit out at the initial casting of Barbie star Margot Robbie as Cathy and Euphoria and Frankenstein’s Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff.

Fennell’s Wuthering Heights has more contemporary aesthetics compared to traditional costumes dramas, along with soundtrack from Brat musician Charli XCX.

Many coming fresh to Wuthering Heights, and indeed the novel, are curious about the plot, here’s everything you need to know about the original book.

The film may take creative liberties with the plot, and it appears to have done so already with the overall look of the piece.

What is the plot of Wuthering Heights?

The novel follows Heathcliff, an orphan found on the streets of Liverpool by Mr Earnshaw and taken to live with his family at Wuthering Heights.

He is brought up alongside the Earnshaws’ children daughter Cathy and son Hindley.

Mr Earnshaw shows favouritism towards Heathcliff over his own children. This bias sees Hindley become abusive towards Heathcliff.

Heathcliff ends up becoming closer to Cathy and the pair fall in love over time.

However, due to his lack of social standing, Cathy and Heathcliff can never be together.

Instead, Cathy marries Edgar Linton despite confessing her love for Heathcliff to servant Nelly. After catching snatches of Cathy and Nelly’s conversation, Healthcliff flees from Wuthering Heights.

Three years later, Heathcliff returns to Wuthering Heights now a gentleman of fortune and takes revenge on Cathy by engaging in a romance with Isabella Linton.

Heathcliff also encourages Hindley’s gambling habit and to mortgage Wuthering Heights to cover his losses.

He later elopes with Isabella, only returning after the relationship fails and he finds Cathy dying.

Heathcliff visits Cathy in secret not long after she gives birth to her daughter, also called Cathy, and the pair reconcile.

Cathy then dies and Heathcliff calls upon her ghost to haunt him until his death.

Isabella is left jealous by Heathcliff’s undying devotion to Cathy and travels South, where she gives birth to his son Linton.

At Wuthering Heights, Hindley dies from his alcoholism and Heathcliff takes over the estate.

The story has a time jump and picks up 12 years later when Heathcliff’s son Linton is taken to live at Wuthering Heights with his father.

Heathcliff schemes to marry Linton to the young Cathy and forces them all to live together with him at Wuthering Heights.

Eventually, Heathcliff dies and the locals claim to see his and Cathy’s ghosts wandering the moors together, now finally at peace.

Wuthering Heights will be released in cinemas on February 14, 2026