When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.<\/i><\/p>\n Credit: Warner Bros.<\/p>\n Director Emerald Fennell has been one to stir the pot in recent years, especially thanks to her 2023 movie Saltburn getting people talking about bathwater. Her next movie isn\u2019t stopping the controversy there. The filmmaker is making one of the biggest upcoming book adaptations<\/u><\/a> on the 2026 movie release schedule<\/u><\/a> with a new iteration of <\/u>Wuthering Heights<\/u><\/a>. But now that the trailer is here, fans of the book are livid.<\/p>\n The first Wuthering Heights trailer dropped on YouTube<\/u><\/a> earlier this week, and it has already been viewed over six million times. A lot of the talk about the movie so far is how much different it looks from the source material by Emily Bront\u00eb. Fans of the novel are most-notably calling the version \u201cwhitewashing\u201d. Here\u2019s one X comment:<\/p>\n The protagonist of Wuthering Heights is depicted in the 1847 novel from the age of six years old to 19 years old, making 35-year-old Margot Robbie the wrong age for the role. However, fans are way more mad over Jacob Elordi\u2019s casting as Heathcliff<\/u><\/a> since he is described as having dark skin tone and a \u201cgipsy-like\u201d appearance that casts him as an outsider from other characters in the novel.<\/p>\n As another fan pointed out:<\/p>\n When Elordi was initially cast in the role, a similar reaction broke out on the internet, and Kharmel Cochrane, the movie\u2019s casting director, has said that \u201cEnglish Lit fans are not going to be happy\u201d<\/u><\/a> with it. Cochrane also claimed that \u201cit\u2019s just a book\u201d and \u201cnot based on real life,\u201d and therefore shouldn\u2019t be judged so harshly. However, those who read the book are loudly discussing how casting Elordi misses some vital themes in the book.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n