The first trailer for Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights dropped this week, and within hours, its steamy scenes, presented in a TikTok-like edit with Charli XCX playing in the background, had ignited a storm of debate across the internet.

While the film has the backing of Margot Robbie's production company and features two of Hollywood's biggest names—Robbie herself, and Jacob Elordi—it is facing fierce pushback from period-drama purists and film buffs alike. They say the project risks prioritizing style and spectacle over capturing the essence of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel.

Erin Johnson, a historian and novelist, told Newsweek that the film threatens to fall into similar traps as the recent BBC medieval drama King & Conqueror , with what she deems inauthentic language, quest

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