Back in 1941, Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion won actress Joan Fontaine an Academy Award. Now Veena Sud, showrunner of AMC’s The Killing, is penning a remake of the classic film noir mystery for Paramount, produced by Montecito Picture Co.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Suspicion, which also starred Carey Grant, was originally based on the 1932 crime novel, Before the Fact, written by Anthony Berkeley under the pseudonym Francis Iles. The original film follows Johnny Aysgarth, a gambler, who meets an English woman, Lina McLaidlaw, on a train. Eventually, the couple marries, but after the death of Aysgarth’s business partner, his wife suspects him of plotting her murder.
This marks the first feature film script written by Sud, but the second recently announced resurrection of a Hitchcock masterpiece for the 21st century. DreamWorks has hired Eastern Promises writer Stephen Wright to develop the script for Hitchcock’s Oscar-winning Rebecca from 1940, which starred Sir Laurence Olivier and Fontaine.
Do you think that Hollywood needs to stop remaking classic films? Is there any value in trying to bring an old story back to life?
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