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Published in 1847 by Emily Brontë under a male pseudonym Ellis Bell, was a provocative novel shocking to critics and the Victorian alike. No doubt, with Fennel’s fresh twists set to be on our screens no earlier than 2025, the adaptation will offer equally polarising reactions. In many ways, matches ’s freak.

It’s a novel where themes of class antagonism, jealousy, revenge, and infatuations that veer on the macabre, come to the fore. But don’t expect this to be any sort of staid sequel: the book demands discussions on female madness and rage, on unreliable narrators, horror, hysteria, and the supernatural - so ghosts, hallucinations, dreams and visions - feature heavily. But much like , there’s more depraved yearning than actual sex; expect visually dense scenes, laden with symbolism and psychologically charged suspense.



This adaptation of is likely to push viewers to think about reaching the extremes of the psyche...

and what happens when a collection of characters (who, frankly, are all a bit too closely related) fail to restrain their turbulent emotions – and what grave consequences unfold. I say grave, because if you managed to witness that fateful tomb scene in , brace yourself once more. Emerald Fennel hinted she might interpret a similarly climatic moment in .

This week she teased the film with an illustrated poster, featuring two suggestively encircled skeletons that reference a similarly erotically charged graveyard scene. It’s when Heathcliff (one of .

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