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Streaming fans can prepare to swoon over the Margot Robbie-led feature adaptation Wuthering Heights.
HBO Max announced on Friday that director Emerald Fennell’s romantic drama will premiere on the streaming service on May 1. Jacob Elordi stars in the film, which will debut on HBO on May 2, the same day the American Sign Language version will air exclusively on HBO Max.
Based on Emily Brontë’s classic novel of the same name, Warner Bros. The film hits theaters on February 13, and has crossed $240 million at the global box office. Hong Chow, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell round out the cast.
Fennell directed the film from her own script based on Brontë’s book. Fennell, Robbie and Josie McNamara produced the project, which hails from LuckyChap and MRC.
Robbie plays Catherine Earnshaw, while Elordi plays Heathcliff. The book, first published in 1847, focuses on the couple’s tempestuous relationship involving passion and revenge after they meet while living in the residence of the same name.
In his review of Wuthering Heights to Hollywood Reporterchief film critic David Rooney described it as “arguably the writer-director’s most entertaining film – lively, provocative, drenched in lurid color and sumptuous design, full of anachronistic trappings, exciting, perverse, irreverent, and resonantly tragic.”
He added: “A lot of times it teeters on the edge of absurdity and cleverness, it just is Wuthering Heights to Bridgerton A generation guaranteed to moisturize the tear ducts and inflame the hearts of youth.
Robbie’s recent credits also include starring opposite Colin Farrell in the 2025 Sony release A beautiful, big, bold journey. Elordi is currently starring in the third season of the hit HBO series trance He can be seen on the big screen later this year with Ridley Scott Dog stars.
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