Baz Luhrmann wants to create a “Jazz Age” version of Charli xcx’s Wuthering Heights movie soundtrack.
The 63-year-old film director thinks it would be a fun thing to do if he could get the 33-year-old singer’s permission to do so.
He told Wallpaper: “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 was behind the 2022 Elvis biopic, Romeo + Juliet, and Moulin Rouge – and his 61-year-old wife, costume designer Catherine Martin, have worked together to design a new carriage, called Celia, for an original 1932 Belmond British Pullman train.
And when it comes to music for the carriage – inspired by a theatre set for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and is set to launch in the summer – Baz is considering doing something as he did for his 2013 film, The Great Gatsby – getting singer Bryan Ferry, 80, to reimagine some popular 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 director hopes the soundtrack will leave people feeling happier and uplifted.
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.”
Elsewhere, Charli xcx said she had a “heavenly” experience of making the soundtrack for Wuthering Heights – the Emerald Fennell-directed drama film, loosely inspired by Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel of the same name.
At the film’s London premiere on February 5, she explained to 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.”
