Next year, just before her Wuthering Heights hits theaters, Emerald Fennell will make her mark on the novel as well. Simon & Schuster is launching a Female Filmmakers Collection that will feature re-releases of classic literature — each volume will be curated by a different director, tasked with curating a movie-inspired cover, writing a new foreword, and imbuing the paperback with cinematic references and Easter eggs. Fennell’s edition of Emily Brontë’s 1847 tome (originally published under the pseudonym
Ellis Bell) will kick off the collection and hit shelves on Feb. 3, 2026.
The Hollywood Reporter is exclusively revealing Fennell’s new cover, as well as a sneak peek of the foreword that Fennell wrote for the edition, which will offer insights into her creative vision for the highly-anticipated feature film.
“It is too slippery, too wild, too good to distill into two hours of film,” writes Fennell. “Instead what I have attempted to do is adapt my own experience of reading it for the first time. It is an adaptation of a feeling: my first disemboweling by the baby god.”
Warner Bros. will release Wuthering Heights, Fennell’s third film following Promising Young Woman and Saltburn on Feb. 13, 2026. The reimagining of the gothic drama stars Margot Robbie (who also produces under her LuckyChap banner) as Catherine and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff; the supporting cast includes Alison Oliver, Owen Cooper and Hong Chau, and the soundtrack will feature original music by Charli xcx.
You can pre-order your copy of the new Wuthering Heights edition here.
The new cover of Wuthering Heights, the inaugural title in Simon & Schuster’s Female Filmmakers Collection.
