‘Vertigo’ remake within the works at Paramount, Robert Downey Jr eying lead function
By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 traditional “Vertigo” is getting a remake with Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr circling the lead function.
According to leisure information outlet Deadline, studio Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights for the remake, which might be produced by Downey Jr and his spouse Susan Downey via their banner Team Downey.
“Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight will pen the script for the undertaking.
The unique psychological thriller starred Jimmy Stewart as John “Scottie” Ferguson, a police detective who has retired as a result of an incident within the line of responsibility has prompted him to develop acrophobia (excessive worry of heights) and vertigo, a false sense of rotational motion.
Scottie is employed by an acquaintance, Gavin Elster, as a personal investigator to observe Gavin’s spouse Madeleine (Kim Novak), who’s behaving surprisingly.
The remake may even be produced by John Davis and John Fox by way of Davis Entertainment.
Downey Jr, greatest identified for his stint as Tony Stark aka Iron Man in lots of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, will subsequent characteristic in filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”.
Knight was employed to put in writing an untitled “Star Wars” film for Lucasfilm earlier this week.
The British screenwriter earlier wrote the scripts for David Cronenberg’s “Eastern Promises”, Brad Pitt-starrer “Allied” and “Spencer”, which featured Kristen Stewart because the late Princess Diana.
LOS ANGELES: Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 traditional “Vertigo” is getting a remake with Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr circling the lead function.
According to leisure information outlet Deadline, studio Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights for the remake, which might be produced by Downey Jr and his spouse Susan Downey via their banner Team Downey.
“Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight will pen the script for the undertaking.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The unique psychological thriller starred Jimmy Stewart as John “Scottie” Ferguson, a police detective who has retired as a result of an incident within the line of responsibility has prompted him to develop acrophobia (excessive worry of heights) and vertigo, a false sense of rotational motion.
Scottie is employed by an acquaintance, Gavin Elster, as a personal investigator to observe Gavin’s spouse Madeleine (Kim Novak), who’s behaving surprisingly.
The remake may even be produced by John Davis and John Fox by way of Davis Entertainment.
Downey Jr, greatest identified for his stint as Tony Stark aka Iron Man in lots of Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, will subsequent characteristic in filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”.
Knight was employed to put in writing an untitled “Star Wars” film for Lucasfilm earlier this week.
The British screenwriter earlier wrote the scripts for David Cronenberg’s “Eastern Promises”, Brad Pitt-starrer “Allied” and “Spencer”, which featured Kristen Stewart because the late Princess Diana.
