I read today that DreamWorks and Working Title Films are getting started on a remake of Hitchcock’s classic 1940 film Rebecca. Those of you that are Hitchcock fans will remember the story about a young woman who marries a rich windower and is haunted by her husband’s first wife. The original book by Daphne DuMaurier will be updated by Steven Knight, who worked on Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things and The Lost Symbol. We will have to wait for news about casting, but this film will be a big one as it is a serious classic from a time when things were still “old-Hollywood glamor.” Who will play the role that was originally done by Laurence Olivier?
The film was directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940 and was one of the original psychological noir thrillers. It starred the iconic, Laurence Olivier as the aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter and actress, Joan Fontaine as his wife.
Who do you think would be good to play the modern Olivier and Fontaine?
