We all knew Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights would be terrible ever since it was announced back in July 2024. We had our suspicions confirmed back in September when it was revealed that Fennell had cast Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff – two decent actors, of course, but wildly unsuited to play a dark-haired teenager and a mixed-race man respectively.

Now, new photos taken of Robbie on set have sent English Literature degree holders everywhere into meltdown again. In the photos captured on Friday (March 21), Robbie is wearing a white silk puff sleeve wedding dress and clutching a colourful bouquet. The images have sparked fresh criticism, with some Brontë fans taking to social media to air their grievances. “We should’ve stopped Emerald Fennell after Promising Young Woman,” one disgruntled user wrote on X. “I’m going to hate the shit out of this movie, like Kendrick Lamar level of hating, full on, like I’m ready to go to prison,” said another.

It’s not difficult to see why people are so riled up about Fennell’s continued butchering of Brontë’s work. If you’re unfamiliar, Brontë’s 1847 novel centres around the doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and her father’s foster son Heathcliff, set against the backdrop of the stark West Yorkshire moors.

The wedding dress worn by Robbie in the newly released images are wildly anachronistic, with white wedding dresses only popularised after Queen Victoria wore a white dress to her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840 (the events of Wuthering Heights span the late 1700s to early 1800s, long before Victoria’s marriage to Albert). The dress, as some have pointed out, looks more like something you’d expect to see in a Princess Diana biopic than an adaptation of a gritty novel set in 18th-century Yorkshire. Also the bouquet is ugly.

It’s also fair to say that Robbie is not a great fit for the role of Cathy. For starters, she’s 36, while in the novels Cathy is a teenager (and – spoiler alert – doesn’t even make it past 18). It also doesn’t help that Cathy is described as having long brown hair with a wild and mischievous air to her, which isn’t really Robbie’s vibe. Many have also flagged that Robbie has a serious case of smartphone face and just doesn’t look like someone who could have conceivably existed in 1783 (no shade to her, it’s not her fault she’s conventionally beautiful). Bafflingly, Alison Oliver – who would have been a more appropriate Cathy, both looks-wise and personality-wise – has been cast as Heathcliff’s wife Isabella Linton (who, ironically, is described in the novel as having blonde hair and blue eyes).

As aforementioned, this isn’t the first time Fennell has been pilloried for her questionable directorial choices. While Heathcliff is described in the novel as a “dark-skinned gipsy” and “a little Lascar”, a 19th-century term for Indian sailors, it was announced last year that Fennell had cast Elordi – a white man – in the role. “Did anyone actually read the book before deciding this?” wrote the Independent’s film critic Clarisse Loughrey on X at the time.

Does Fennell seriously think she’s doing a good job of translating the story from page to screen? Or is this all just an elaborate rage-bait ploy? Either way, I’ll be seated to hate-watch this god awful film come February 2026.