Emerald Fennel explains quotation marks in 'Wuthering Heights' title

Emerald Fennel has opened up about Wuthering Heights adaptation, which she considers an almost impossible task, explaining why she changed the title of her movie. 

For those unversed, upcoming adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi is named Wuthering Heights, with the quotation marks. 

Now, the Saltburn maker has admitted why she chose to include the quotation marks in the title.

She said you simply can't adapt a book as 'dense, complicated and difficult' as Wuthering Heights, so you create a version of it rather than a replica.

Emerald said she consulted the Brontë Parsonage Museum and others who love the book as much as she does before deciding on the title, adding: 'It is Wuthering Heights and it isn't.'

Speaking to Fandango on Wednesday, Emerald said: 'I think it's a lot of things but I think primarily it's because the book means so much to me and it means so so much to so many people, and I've been doing a lot of talking to the Brontë Parsonage Museum and to other people who love this book too because it means a lot to me. 

She continued: 'But the thing for me is you can't adapt a book as dense and complicated and difficult as this book. I can't say I'm making Wuthering Heights. It's not possible.

'What I can say is I'm making a version of it. There's a version I remembered reading, which isn't quite real. And there's a version that I wanted to stuff to happen that never happened.

'And so it is Wuthering Heights and it isn't. But really I'd say any adaptation of a novel, and especially a novel like this, should have, you know, quotation marks around it.'

It comes after the film's costume designer Jacqueline Durran has hit back at fans who criticised Margot Robbie's 'hideous' outfits in the upcoming film.