Baz Luhrmann has shared that he would love to create a “Jazz Age” reinterpretation of Charli xcx’s soundtrack for the film Wuthering Heights.
The 63 year old filmmaker believes the idea could be an exciting project, although he said he would first need approval from the 33 year old singer before moving forward.
Speaking to Wallpaper, he said: "I’d take the soundtrack to Wuthering Heights and do a Jazz Age version of it.
"You’d have to ask Charli if that was OK, but I think it’d be cool."
Baz, who directed films including the 2022 Elvis biopic as well as Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, has also been collaborating with his 61 year old wife, costume designer Catherine Martin, on a new railway carriage named Celia. The carriage has been created for an original 1932 Belmond British Pullman train.
When thinking about the music that might accompany the carriage, which takes inspiration from a theatre style setting based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and is scheduled to debut in the summer, Baz revealed he is considering a musical approach similar to what he did for his 2013 film The Great Gatsby, when he asked singer Bryan Ferry, now 80, to reinterpret well known pop songs.
Baz said: "What I would do is probably something like what I did with Bryan Ferry on Gatsby, where I got Bryan, with his wonderful jazz orchestra, to cover Crazy in Love and do some modern cuts.
The filmmaker also hopes the overall experience will leave guests feeling uplifted and joyful.
Baz said: "In a world that is so bereft of civility, kindness, warmth, magic, love and beauty, I hope [visitors] leave feeling like they have got a little bit of that alongside amazing food, a lot of laughs and a few cups of whatever it is that they drink.
"I really want them to stumble back out in London, shimmy off into the night and feel like they haven’t been away for a day, but that they’ve been away for a month."
In another interview, Charli xcx described her experience composing the soundtrack for Wuthering Heights, the Emerald Fennell directed drama loosely based on Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel of the same title, as “heavenly”.
While attending the film’s London premiere on February 5, she told the BBC: "I always like to work with polar opposites, and so this was honestly a dream project for me.
"When I first started making music, I was so inspired by, you know, so many of the references that Emerald and I were talking about, like Shakespears Sister to The Cure to, obviously, Kate Bush ... So this was, yeah, it was really heavenly to work on this."
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