‘Wuthering Heights’: 10 Biggest Book-to-Movie Changes in 2026 Adaptation

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for “Wuthering Heights”.]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock with zero 5G and absolutely no group chats, you’ve probably heard a lot about “Wuthering Heights” lately. Some of us stumbled out of the cinema with mascara streaks and emotional damage. Others walked out muttering about everything the movie didn’t include from Emily Brontë’s book. And honestly? Plenty of us fall into both camps — longtime Wuthering Heights readers who still fully lost it over that rock-on-the-moors moment.

As it turns out, there are quite a few differences between the book and the film — and yes, somehow the Emerald Fennell adaptation is actually less disturbing than the original. (If you know, you know.)