Alfred Hitchcock's first American project was an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca." Starring Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, and Judith Anderson, the 1940 film was a huge success and even snagged Hitchcock his first Oscar nomination for Best Director. Eighty years later, Ben Wheatley (FREE FIRE) will be bringing REBECCA to life once again with his take on the novel. The film stars Lily James (YESTERDAY) as a young newlywed who arrives at her husband's (Armie Hammer) imposing family estate on a windswept English coast and finds herself battling the shadow of his first wife Rebecca, whose legacy lives on in the house long after her death.
Netflix has revealed a handful of first look photos from REBECCA which feature Mrs. de Winter (James), Maxim de Winter (Hammer), and Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas). You can check those out below!
In addition to Lily James, Armie Hammer, and Kristin Scott Thomas, REBECCA also stars Keeley Hawes, Ann Dowd, Sam Riley, Tom Goodman-Hill, Mark Lewis Jones, John Hollingworth, and Bill Paterson. While speaking with Empire, Ben Wheatley said that he was drawn to the shifting genre tones of the Daphne du Maurier novel. "The idea of du Maurier smuggling a ghost story and a thriller and a betrayal inside a romance story, like a Russian doll, was really good," Wheatley said. "That genre-jumping thing is something I’ve had in my own work, and the connection made sense." REBECCA was scripted by Jane Goldman and Joe Shrapnel & Anna Waterhouse.
The official synopsis for REBECCA:
After a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with handsome widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer), a newly married young woman (Lily James) arrives at Manderley, her new husband's imposing family estate on a windswept English coast. Naive and inexperienced, she begins to settle into the trappings of her new life, but finds herself battling the shadow of Maxim's first wife, the elegant and urbane Rebecca, whose haunting legacy is kept alive by Manderley's sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas). Directed by Ben Wheatley (High Rise, Free Fire) and produced by Working Title Films (Emma, Darkest Hour), REBECCA is a mesmerising and gorgeously rendered psychological thriller based on Daphne du Maurier's beloved 1938 gothic novel.
REBECCA will debut on Netflix on October 21, 2020.
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