Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi Cast in New “Wuthering Heights” Film Adaptation — and the Internet Has Thoughts

Emerald Fennell - who directed Elordi in 'Saltburn' and appeared in Robbie's 'Barbie' - will direct the new movie, based on Emily Brontë's 1847 novel

The internet is weighing in on Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights — specifically, the reported casting of Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.

Per a Deadline exclusive, Robbie, 34, and Elordi, 27, are set to take on the roles of Catherine and Heathcliff in the latest adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel, which was first published in 1847.

Fennell, 38, will write, direct and produce Wuthering Heights, according to Deadline. The film will be co-produced by Robbie's LuckyChap, partnering with studio MRC, which will finance, per the outlet.

Amid news of Robbie and Elordi's casting, social media was set ablaze with people offering their opinions. Wrote one user on X (formerly Twitter), "No hate to margot robbie and jacob elordi but neither of them have enough Psychologically Tortured vibes to play cathy and heathcliff. like a wuthering heights adaptation simply needs actors who are weirder."

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Others were more hopeful about the film, like another X user who posted, "And what if I said I’m actually excited for the Emerald Fennell Wuthering Heights adaptation."

But several comments pointed out that Heathcliff is described as having "dark hair, dark eyes and dark skin" in the book, and reacted negatively to the casting.

"I love that they're making a new Wuthering Heights film, it's my favorite book," one wrote on X. "Casting two white people as Cathy and Heathcliff is uh ... Why is this the third movie to cast a white dude as a person of color in an interracial relationship where he's demonized ... ?"

Despite Brontë's's description of the character, Heathcliff has been played by the likes of Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Ralph Fiennes, and Tom Hardy in past adaptations.

Said another X user of the upcoming adaptation, "I feel like we’re focusing way too much on the casting & not enough on the fact that Wuthering Heights is an incredibly bleak & nuanced story of a man’s lashing out at mistreatment & bigotry by descending into cruelty towards those around him, including the one he claims to love."

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Both actors involved in the project have worked closely with Fennell in recent years. Robbie appeared alongside the filmmaker in last year's Barbie, in which Fennell made a cameo appearance as the pregnant friend of Robbie's titular Mattel doll.

Elordi, meanwhile, played the mysterious Felix Catton in the 2023 Barry Keoghan-led psychological thriller Saltburn, which Fennell wrote, directed and co-produced — the latter alongside LuckyChap's Robbie and Josey McNamara.

Robbie, McNamara, 38, and more were also involved in Fennell's directorial debut Promising Young Woman (2020), which nabbed the filmmaker a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award.

Plot details for Wuthering Heights are unknown at this time.

PEOPLE has reached out to reps for Fennell, Robbie and Elordi for comment.

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