Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi star in the upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights, but fans are divided after seeing the first trailer of the Emerald Fennell movie

Margot Robbie’s Wuthering Heights trailer dubbed ‘softcore porn’ by fans(Image: PR)

Wuthering Heights fans were gobsmacked after watching the first trailer for Emerald Fennell’s racy adaptation of the classic. The movie already divided fans with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi being cast as the leads of the updated version of the Emily Brontë novel.

Margot takes on the role of Catherine Earnshaw while Euphoria star Jacob transforms into Heathcliff. Saltburn director Emerald’s version won’t be faithful to the original novel, much to the disappointment of many. Just last month, test screenings proved to be disastrous as some were disgusted by the raunchy scenes.

And after seeing the first trailer, many agreed on the criticism and said the film was ‘erotic softcore porn’.

Fans branded the adaptation ‘softcore porn’(Image: PR)

One user said on X/Twitter: “Is Wuthering Heights about BDSM and fingering a fish? First in my generation to see a scene like that,” while another posted: “Listen, I’m no puritan and I’m into horror.

“It takes a f**k ton to purely shock me, so it’s not the hypersexuality that makes me side-eye this, it’s the fact that we are completely changing the tone & theme of the novel? Why? Couldn’t she make an original feature film?”

“Genuinely feeling haunted by the erotic retelling of Wuthering Heights and I don’t even like the book,” one user commented.

The first trailer of the re-telling divided viewers

A shocked user said: “they turned wuthering heights into soft porn,” while another posted: “I’m so fucking mad at that f**ka** wuthering heights adaptation if you want to do a pornographic period piece just do that make up a dumb f**king pseudo-plot and do whatever the f**k you want but leave literature alone.”

Two moments in particular have stood out to fans in the trailer – a steamy exchange in which Robbie’s fingers are in Elordi’s mouth, and a grisly parallel in which someone’s finger slides into the mouth of a dead fish.

After a test screening, the film was branded “tonally abrasive” and “sexually explicit”. The movie starts with a public hanging but this is perhaps the most tamed part of the opening sequel.

Mid-execution, the male appears to ejaculate, sparking a frenzy in the onlooking crowd, which subsequently descends into an orgiastic mess, with a nun “fondling the corpse’s visible erection.”

Elsewhere, the theme of sexual drive runs throughout the production, with scenes of “clinical masturbation”, as well as bondage using horse reins, while there’s less of the conventional romance or emotions that those familiar with Brontë’s work may be familiar with.