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Wuthering Heights fans have gone wild after Cliff Richard's 90s musical based on the novel, which he co-wrote and starred in as Heathcliff, has gone viral.
Aussie Jacob Elordi may be smouldering on screen in Emerald Fennell's new big screen adaption, but first came Sir Cliff, now 85, with his own strangely wig and questionable Yorkshire accent.
Gone is the crooner's squeaky clean persona to play the rogue in the 1996 show which was a huge hit with fans but loathed by critics, who hit out at Cliff's casting.
In the trailer the Summer Holiday singer can be seen caught up in a doom love affair with adoptive sister Cathy (Helen Hobson) before dramatically breaking into song.
One dramatic moment saw him lamenting those who had crossed him while sailing on a ship with a less than realistic backdrop before later screaming down a well.
Taking to TikTok fans joked: 'This is what Emily Brontë would have wanted!': 'Cliff heard a Yorkshire accent, once, in a dream': 'I'm screaming!!': 'Sorry but this is what all movie to musical adaptations sound like to me': 'Why didn't they call it Heathcliffe Richards?': 'I am only surprised that Cilla Black wasn't cast as Cathy'.
Wuthering Heights fans have gone wild after Cliff Richard's 90s musical based on the novel, which he co-wrote and starred in as Heathcliff, has gone viral
Jacob Elordi may be smouldering on screen in Emerald Fennell's new big screen adaption (pictured) but first came Sir Cliff with his own strangely wig and questionable Yorkshire accent
One dramatic moment saw him lamenting those who had crossed him while sailing on a ship with a less than realistic backdrop before later screaming down a well
Cliff wrote the musical's script with theatre director Frank Dunlop while John Farrar wrote the music and Evita and The Lion King's Tim Rice penned the lyrics.
The musical toured UK arenas and theatres between October 1996 and May 1997 and broke box office records, with advanced ticket sales of £4M and was seen by half a million fans.
The show, which one reviewer branded 'Withering rather than wuthering' was also filmed and later released on video, topping the charts for eight weeks.
Cliff said at the time during a Live & Kicking interview: 'I read the book when I was at school and I really loved it. Although I realise now that I had a rather romantic view of the story,'
'When I read it again as an adult, I realised that it's not a romantic story at all. It's a dark, foreboding story about a man who's obsessed with this one woman.'
Meanwhile Jacob Elordi has shared his surprising take on filming steamy sex scenes with his stunning co-star Margot Robbie in the novel's racier big screen adaption.
The duo star as the tragic Heathcliff and Cathy in the new film which is full of raunchy moment between the pair.
Jacob, 28, has now said that the capturing the intimate moments is no different to choreographing fight or dance sequences and that it is 'super technical'.
The musical toured UK arenas and theatres between October 1996 and May 1997 and broke box office records (Jacob Elordi pictured as Heathcliff right)
Gone is the crooner's squeaky clean persona to play the rogue in the 1996 show which was a huge hit with fans but loathed by critics, who hit out at Cliff's casting
In the trailer the Summer Holiday singer can be seen caught up in a doom love affair with adoptive sister Cathy (Helen Hobson) before dramatically breaking into song
Taking to TikTok fans joked: 'This is what Emily Brontë would have wanted!': 'Cliff heard a Yorkshire accent, once, in a dream'
He told The Sun of the scenes: 'It's like, 'Action' and it's like a horse at the race track - straight out of the gates. It's no different to choreographing a fight scene or a dance sequence.
'It's super technical, especially the scene where, it's not a sex scene, but where I'm on top [of Margot] with my hands - that's choreographed because, in that kind of light, you only have so much space to move.
'So what you do has to fit in the frame and work with the lighting.'
The pair wrapped up their much-scrutinised press tour while home in Queensland for yet another viewing earlier this month.
The Australian pair made a surprise appearance at a cinema in Brisbane for their 16th screening of the film on February 15.
They play Cathy and Heathcliff in British director Emerald Fennell's take on Emily Brontë's 1847 novel.
Film fans are already hailing the sweeping period drama as the 'movie of the year', as they took to social media to share their thoughts on the moving plot, admitting they 'cried their eyes out'.
Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie pictured in the 2026 big screen adaption
Sir Cliff Richard pictured 2023
Set against the wild Yorkshire moors, the passionate love story explores the intense and destructive relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff.
Speaking before the release, director Emerald, 40, revealed she was actively hoping audiences would have such an intense reaction.
She told Time Out: 'I want lots of snogging [in the cinema]. I think whatever you can get away with – sorry, Cineworld.
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