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Hollywood Needs to Stop Hot-Washing Literary Adaptations

Literary Hub·Maris Kreizman May 14, 2026·18 days ago
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Maris Kreizman on Wuthering Heights, Scarpetta, Vladimir , and an Epidemic of Beautiful People in the Wrong Roles I finally caught the latest film adaptation of Wuthering Heights last week and even though I knew it had been divisive I was still disappointed in a way I hadn’t imagined. I was prepared for the film to be tacky and over the top and too much, and that didn’t faze me at all. I welcomed it. The source material demands it, in fact. But I cannot forgive the fact that in the 2026 version of Wuthering Heights there is absolutely no haunting. Article continues after advertisement What is Wuthering Heights without ghosts? It becomes a mildly sordid tale of the romance between two very beautiful people that ends when one of them dies, and it also makes Kate Bush’s song of the same name make no sense at all.…

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