The women behind Wuthering Heights are thinking big, and we’re not just talking about Jacob Elordi’s size. Director Emerald Fennell began conversations about the film by telling star and producer Margot Robbie, “‘I want this to be this generation’s Titanic .’” Yes, that Titanic , the one that has made over $2 billion since debuting in theaters in 1997. Robbie recalled Fennell’s aspirations for a gothic, seductive Brontë adaptation in a December 4 interview with British Vogue . “‘I went to the cinema to watch [Baz Luhrmann’s] Romeo + Juliet eight times and I was on the ground crying when I wasn’t allowed to go back for a ninth,’” Robbie quoted the Saltburn director. “‘I want it to be that.’”

The comparisons to both sexy ’90s romantic dramas would point to Elordi being the

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