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
Wuthering Heights (fictional location) Wuthering Heights is provided by Mr Lockwood, a tenant at the Grange and one of the two primary narrators: Many Gothic houses and manors have claimed or had claimed for them the title of Brontë's inspiration in creating the Heights. The most well-known of these is Top Withens, a local Elizabethan farmhouse which Brontë's biographer Winifred Gérin seems to favour primarily because of its name: the word "Top" suggests "Heights", while "Withens" sounds very much like "Wuthering". Wuthering Heights (fictional location) Wuthering Heights is a fictional location in Emily Brontë's novel of the same name. A dark and unsightly place,