Stormy peaks: because we are waiting for the version with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi

When we learned that Stormy peaksthe famous novel of 1847 of Emily Brontë which is a bit like I Promessi Sposi for England, it would have been transposed to the cinema by Emerald Fennellalready behind the success of two films of the last few years as A promising woman And SALTBURNwe made a jump of joy because if there is a director capable of rewriting a classic of this type in a pop key without distorting it that is undoubtedly Fennell. The film, which will be released in the cinema on February 12, 2026then boasts two exceptional protagonists: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, respectively in the role of Catherine and Heathcliff.

In the center of Stormy peaksthe only novel never written by Emily Brontë, she is told The troubled relationship between these two young boys growing in the same house in English Yorkshire. To judge, however, by the very first teaser of the film It seems that Fennell has chosen not only to opt for a more theatrical and bizarre aestheticvery similar to that of the first refn, but also to one more accentuated erotic dimension Which, especially in America, is meeting a ferocious criticism for an approach considered by some too much blood. Yet, on closer inspection, the story tells of the two families, the Earnshaw he is Lintonunited by a character who has to do with both, Heathcliff, adopted son of the former, humiliated by the half -brother Hindley and in love with the sisterbusier Catherine, It is well suited to suggestions and personal interpretations if not even grotesque.

Leaving the accusation of Whitewashing by Heathcliff, Considering that in the film he has Jacob Elordi’s body while in the novel he is described as Gitano and Asia, we continue to believe that classics like Stormy peakscornerstone of literature in English, must be shot according to their own lens because literature and stories are nothing more than this: tools capable of allowing readers and authors to see what they want. It is no coincidence that the novel was brought to the large and small screen several times by several authors, starting from the William Wyler of The voice in the storminterpreted by Merle Oberon And Laurence Olivierto get to the last Wuthering Heights of 2011 by Andrea Arnold, with Kaya Scodelario and James Howon, still passing through Luis Buñuel and his Stormy peaks of 1954.