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 rereleases 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 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…
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