What I really wanted was to kind of distill the experience of being a 14-year-old girl reading something like this for the first time.

It's a difficult, it's a difficult book to adapt.

And I suppose the main thing I wanted to do was also keep as much of Bronte's dialogue, because it's so good.

So even if I've taken some liberties with the text, which obviously I have, there is a lot,

a lot of her original words in there.

Music Hello and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to by the Director's Guild of America.

In this episode, tragedy strikes star-crossed lovers in 18th century England,

and director Emerald Fennell's period romance, Wuthering Heights. Based on the novel by Emily Bronte, the film follows the impoverished Heathcliff and the wealthy Catherine, two young

lovers hailing from different social classes. After Catherine marries someone else and Heathcliff disappears in despair, years pass and he returns

with mysterious wealth and nefarious intentions.

In addition to Wuthering Heights, Thinnell's other directorial credits include the feature film, Saltburn.

She was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film

for her 2020 feature, Promising Young Woman.

Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles,

Fennell spoke with director J.J. Abrams about filming Wuthering Heights.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Thank you. Happy Valentine's Day.

Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming. Emerald Frenel, ladies and gentlemen, director,

G.J. Abrams, though, to be fair.

I have nine million questions. Your movie's hot. Let's honest it's hot um can i just ask you about the

tone of the movie like what you were when you first went into adapting this as you did was was there

a clear tone in your mind because when i watched the film it was such a tightrope of tone and i'm

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