Wuthering Heights (2011 film) Wuthering Heights (2011 film) Wuthering Heights is a 2011 British romantic gothic, period drama film directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Kaya Scodelario as Catherine and James Howson as Heathcliff. The screenplay, written by Andrea Arnold and Olivia Hetreed, is based on Emily Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name Announced in April 2008, Natalie Portman was originally set to star as Cathy in a new film adaptation of the novel, but she withdrew in May. In May 2008, director John Maybury cast Michael Fassbender as Heathcliff and Abbie Cornish as Cathy. However, in May 2009, Peter Webber was announced
Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights". Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the tortured anti hero whose all-consuming rage, jealousy and anger destroy both him and those around him. He is better known for being a romantic hero due to his youthful love for Catherine Earnshaw, than for his final years of vengeance in the second half of the novel, during which he grows into a bitter, haunted man, and for a number of incidents in his early life that suggest that