New Wuthering Heights production

I remember a school trip (all girls) to see Wuthering Heights in 1970. The film starred Timothy Dalton and was greatly enjoyed by a hormonal group of 14-15 year olds!

Such a shame that we treat our literary giants like this I agree Fallingstar .

There is undefined violence in the novel, and all-consuming passions without explicit sex, and everybody seems to hate every body else, but the costumes and the adaptation, sound dreadful.

I think a lot of people will go to see it but probs the same crowd who loved fifty shades of grey.
Such a shame that we treat our literary giants like this, a sign of times, making everything about instant gratification and ‘likes’.

Wuthering Heights can never be well-adapted for stage or screen, it is far too complex a novel.

I don't know if the director ever read the book, but I suspect not.

I won't be seeing the film...

Yesterday there was a truly excoriating article about it in the main part of the Times - and a gushingly enthusiastic piece in the Arts section, by a journalist who was raving about the male lead (‘hottest man on the planet’ ) or some such, and TBH sounded about 14 and a half.

Must say I had expected to avoid it anyway, since I can’t bear period pieces - especially classics - where they’ve ’sexed them up’ and modernised the dialogue so that it sounds so wrong and really grates on me.