A Remake of Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ Is In Development

According to the lots of of movie critics polled by the British journal Sight & Sound, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is the second-best film ever made, behind solely Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, When Sight & Sound polled critics a decade in the past, they picked Vertigo because the #1 film of all time. In each circumstances it ranked forward of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, and different masterpieces like The Godfather, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Tokyo Story.

So… who desires to see a remake? Apparently Paramount does, as they’re at the moment growing a brand new model of Vertigo that they hope will star none aside from Robert Downey Jr. within the position initially performed by Jimmy Stewart. In Hitchcock’s movie, Stewart performs a police detective with a concern of heights; pressured into an early retirement. He accepts a job following an acquaintance’s spouse, who has been performing unusually. That leads him right into a case full of twists, obsessions, and tragedies.

Whether the remake will likely be a tragedy or not stays to be seen, however Paramount is engaged on it. Deadline reviews that Steven Knight — who’s already within the information this week as the brand new author of the upcoming Star Wars film — is engaged on the screenplay, primarily based on the unique script by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor.

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Hitchcock’s motion pictures have in some circumstances been remade earlier than — even by Hitchcock, who directed a brand new model of The Man Who Knew Too Much 22 years after the unique movie he’d additionally made. Of course, some of the remakes of Hitchcock movies have change into downright infamous. (Hitchcock puns!) Gus Van Sant’s 1998 shot-for-shot remake of Psycho has gone down in historical past as one of the strangest experiments in all of Hollywood cinema. How the brand new Vertigo will end up is anybody’s guess.