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Princess Anne looks regal in emerald green coat and hat at dawn Anzac Day service

Princess Anne looks regal in emerald green coat and hat at dawn Anzac Day service

Published by Daniella Wilson

Princess Anne made a powerful appearance in the early hours of the morning as she attended a dawn service to mark Anzac Day, honouring the bravery and sacrifice of Australian and New Zealand troops. Arriving shortly before 5am at Wellington Arch in Hyde Park Corner, the Princess Royal cut an elegant figure in an emerald green tailored coat, paired with a structured hat and black gloves. A red poppy pinned to her lapel served as a poignant tribute, while the soft morning light added to the solemn atmosphere of the occasion. The service, organised by the New Zealand and Australian High Commissions, brought together members of the public, military personnel and dignitaries in a moment of reflection. Anne was seen laying a wreath of vibrant red poppies, bowing her head in quiet remembrance as those gathered looked on. © PA Images via Getty ImagesThe Princess Royal attends a Dawn Service commemorating Anzac Day at the New Zealand Memorial at Hyde Park Corner Anzac Day commemorates the 1915 Gallipoli landing of Australian and New Zealand troops …

Emerald Fennell shoots down claim she’s ‘in negotiations’ to direct major movie reboot

Emerald Fennell shoots down claim she’s ‘in negotiations’ to direct major movie reboot

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter British director Emerald Fennell has denied that she is in negotiations to helm Amazon’s planned reboot of the 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct. In a new interview with The Guardian, Joe Eszterhas — who wrote the screenplay for the original cult classic directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Sharon Stone as a crime novelist suspected of murdering a rock star — claimed that Fennell was “in negotiations” to direct his nearly completed screenplay for the remake. “The producers are negotiating with a really interesting director — a Brit, Emerald Fennell — who did Promising Young Woman and Wuthering Heights,” the 81-year-old writer said. “Her sensibility is exactly right. She’s someone who is not afraid of controversy and sexuality. So I’m thrilled by that. I hope it works out.” However, Fennell’s representative quickly told Variety that “there is no truth” to Eszterhas’s claims, …

Basic Instinct Reboot Could Be Directed By Emerald Fennell, Writer Suggests

Basic Instinct Reboot Could Be Directed By Emerald Fennell, Writer Suggests

Published by Sam Flores

Emerald Fennell UPDATE: Emerald Fennell denies Basic Instinct reboot rumours. It looks like we know what Emerald Fennell is cooking up as her next project to follow Wuthering Heights. The British filmmaker is currently in talks to helm a reboot of Basic Instinct, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas teased during a new interview with The Guardian. Joe – who penned the script of the original Basic Instinct, as well as the likes of Flashdance and Showgirls – explained he’s almost done with writing a new spin on the original 1992 erotic romance. He claimed: “The producers are negotiating with a really interesting director – a Brit, Emerald Fennell – who did Promising Young Woman and Wuthering Heights.” “Her sensibility is exactly right,” Joe continued. “She’s someone who is not afraid of controversy and sexuality. So I’m thrilled by that. I hope it works out.” After working both behind and in front of the camera on screen, Emerald made her feature-length directing debut in 2020 with Promising Young Woman, which was nominated for five Oscars and won one …

What Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights Gets Right About 18th Century Sex

What Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights Gets Right About 18th Century Sex

Published by Sam Flores

Whether you loved it or you hated it, Emerald Fennell’s sexually-charged reimagining of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights – featuring a brooding Jacob Elordi – still has us all talking over a week after its cinematic release. While the original 1847 novel didn’t feature any sex scenes, Fennell’s film is far more ‘Heathcliff, it’s me, it’s Cathy, I’m horny.’ But for all the sneaking out of bedroom windows, romping in carriages, grinding in the moors, finger sucking and… puppy play that Fennell portrays in her take of Wuthering Heights, how much of this raunchery was actually going on during the period in which the original novel was set? When you think of sexy periods of time in history, we tend to think of the promiscuity of the Ancient Romans or even the more recent free love movement of the 1970s – not the late Georgian era. So before we all start wishing that we could jump in a time machine to 1770 and find our own Heathcliff to romp about the moors with, we asked leading …

Wuthering Heights reactions: How Emerald Fennell’s divisive adaptation tore the Independent’s culture desk apart

Wuthering Heights reactions: How Emerald Fennell’s divisive adaptation tore the Independent’s culture desk apart

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Brexit. JFK’s assassination. That blue and black or white and gold dress. All vaguely impressive sources of debate, but sorely lacking in the drama and volatility of The Independent culture desk’s first few days in a post-Wuthering Heights world. Emerald Fennell’s grass-eating, dough-molesting bodice-ripper – “adapted” “loosely” from Emily Brontë’s literary touchstone – has been the canary in the coal mine for our offices here, helping surface long-standing tensions and sharpening inter-desk rivalries. No, I kid. We’ve all just really, really disagreed with one another on it, Fennell comfortably reaffirming her position as the most divisive filmmaker currently working. Questions are constant. “Was Margot Robbie supposed to act like that?”; “Jacob Elordi gold tooth – yay or nay?”; “Did I enjoy Wuthering Heights or …

Wuthering Heights: Emerald Fennell is good, actually

Wuthering Heights: Emerald Fennell is good, actually

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter There is a two-minute section at the midpoint of‘Wuthering Heights’ that had me briefly convinced I was watching the greatest movie ever made. We watch as Margot Robbie’s Cathy wears Elton John’s sunglasses, paws at flesh-coloured walls, and skips and jumps around an eerily manicured garden straight out of Monty Don’s erotic nightmares. Charli xcx wails on the soundtrack, swaddled in reverb and metallic strings. Granted, Charli could probably belch in a soundbooth and I’d call it a banger, but still: gosh, I thought, this is cinema. But then the song ended, and Robbie – bored, randy and now for some reason dressed like Whitney Houston in 1988 – sat on some eggs and stuck her index finger into the mouth of a jellied fish. The illusion was broken. No, I concluded, this isn’t the greatest movie ever made. But it …

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is controversial – but Brontë’s novel has been shocking people for 178 years

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is controversial – but Brontë’s novel has been shocking people for 178 years

Published by Daniella Wilson

If you’ve been anywhere on the internet in recent months, you’ll notice that Emerald Fennell’s new adaptation of Wuthering Heights has caused its fair share of controversy. But it’s worth noting that this is a story that has outraged and intrigued people ever since its initial publication in 1847. Speaking to RadioTimes.com, Juliet Barker, author of The Brontës, Lucasta Miller, author of The Brontë Myth, and Claire O’Callaghan, Editor-in-Chief of Brontë Studies – the official journal of the Brontë Society – talked us through the shocking past of the text. “The scenes of violence, they’re so graphic that they almost go beyond realism,” explained Miller. “Which is why I don’t think they can really be represented on screen unless it became a Tarantino-esque cartoon. “If you imagine literally portraying on-screen a grown man rubbing a child’s wrist up and down on a broken window until the blood runs down. People would be running out of the cinemas.” The 2026 movie – out in cinemas today – retains an element of that shock factor. O’Callaghan, who …

Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” is a reader’s dream

Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” is a reader’s dream

Published by Sam Flores

In the months leading up to Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s beloved novel “Wuthering Heights,” one rumor about the writer-director’s new version of the classic story took hold among the public. Eagle-eyed viewers noticed that, in the film’s poster and its trailers, the title was bookended by quotation marks. Some theorized that it was merely an homage to vintage movie posters, pointing out that the posters depict the film’s two leads, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, embracing in a “Gone with the Wind”-esque pose. Others speculated that, due to Fennell’s penchant for audience provocation, the quotation marks were an Easter egg indicating that her take on Brontë’s novel would be far from your great-great-grandmother’s “Wuthering Heights.” Before long, it became a common assumption among the chronically online that Fennell’s version would reveal itself to be from the point of view of a woman — perhaps Victorian, perhaps in another era altogether — reading the book for the first time, its twisted love story playing out in her head and onto the silver screen. Done …

19 changes Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights makes from the book

19 changes Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights makes from the book

Published by Daniella Wilson

In case you missed it, the latest adaptation of Wuthering Heights is stirring up some controversy. The classic novel by Emily Brontë has been adapted for the screen countless times, and now provocative director and writer Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman, Saltburn) has taken on the challenge of bringing her version to the screen. The film, as many will be aware, charts the dramatic love story of Catherine Earnshaw (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) as they are raised together on the majestic Yorkshire moors in Victorian England and develop a connection which cannot be denied. Speaking to Fandango, Fennell said: “The thing for me is that you can’t adapt a book as dense and complicated and difficult as this book. I can’t say I’m making Wuthering Heights. It’s not possible.”In fact, this has been given as the explanation for the film’s title being stylised as “Wuthering Heights” with quotation marks.The backlash from many Brontë purists was swift and unrelenting once marketing started for the film and shows little sign of abating now that the …

Wuthering Heights review | Emerald Fennell’s revamp will almost certainly provoke pearl-clutching

Wuthering Heights review | Emerald Fennell’s revamp will almost certainly provoke pearl-clutching

Published by Daniella Wilson

Wuthering Heights is in cinemas from 13 February. Add it to your watchlist Emily Brontë’s gothic romance gets a radical revamp in this sizzling, amusing and stormy new screen adaptation from Saltburn’s Emerald Fennell, who bagged an Original Screenplay Oscar for her attention-grabbing 2020 debut Promising Young Woman. Casting Hollywood’s hottest properties, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, as her leads, writer/director Fennell presents us with a version that’s unapologetically her own vision, lopping off the second half of the story and sexing things up to the max. We see how the young Heathcliff and Cathy (Adolescence’s Owen Cooper and Charlotte Mellington) are thrown together when Heathcliff is taken in by Cathy’s father Mr Earnshaw (Martin Clunes), who saves him from being savaged in the street by a man who may or may not be Heathcliff’s own father. It’s not long before the drunken Earnshaw is treating the boy roughly, but Heathcliff and Cathy become thick as thieves, a bond which grows into something all-consumingly romantic as they age. This connection is severed, apparently for good, …