Ben Wheatley has already unveiled one surprise film, with Happy New Year, Colin Burstead arriving in our cinemas last month. A future project is almost as unexpected, as he has Armie Hammer and Lily James starring in a new version of Daphne du Maurier’s classic romantic gothic thriller Rebecca.
With Kingsman (and the new Game Of Thrones prequel series) writer Jane Goldman scripting this version of the story, it'll once more follow a newly-married young woman who, on arriving at her husband's imposing family estate on a bleak English coast, finds herself battling the shadow of his dead first wife, the mysterious Rebecca, whose legacy continues to haunt the house.
Wheatley has traditionally generated his own material (with co-writer Amy Jump, or adapted the likes of High Rise), so this is an intriguing switch for him. Still, he has form with Hammer after Free Fire and it'll be fascinating to see what he and Goldman have up their sleeves to put their stamp on the tale famously brought to cinema screens in 1940 by one Alfred Hitchcock.
Netflix is backing this one, alongside the Working Title team, but we don't yet know when it'll arrive on the streaming service (and, if it follows current trends, on a limited cinematic release).
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