Vertigo, the traditional Alfred Hitchcock 1958 psychological thriller, is reportedly getting a remake. As per Deadline, Paramount Pictures has acquired remake rights to the movie, with Robert Downey Jr. (Zodiac, The Avengers) set to headline the solid lineup. In it, he’ll reprise the late actor James Stewart’s function from the unique movie — a retired detective affected by acrophobia, aka the concern of heights. Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is hooked up to pen the Vertigo remake, produced by Davis Entertainment in collaboration with Susan Downey and Robert’s personal firm, Team Downey.
Downey has laid low as an actor since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, which turned out to be the second-highest-grossing movie of all time, with re-releases. He then went on to government produce and star in Dolittle, which was deemed a field workplace bomb, adopted by showing in a Netflix documentary ‘Sr.,’ inspecting his father’s profession and relationships. Downey will subsequent seem within the Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer as Lewis Strauss, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Then there’s the Park Chan-wook-directed The Sympathizer TV sequence for HBO and A24 within the works, with Downey hooked up to star and government produce.
Directed by Hitchcock, Vertigo follows a former San Franciso police detective John “Scottie” Ferguson (Stewart), who retires from the power due to a paralysing concern of heights, worsened by vertigo. When the sleuth is employed by an acquaintance to shadow his spouse (Kim Novak) and uncover her unusual behaviour, Scottie finds himself more and more obsessed together with her. His acrophobia, nevertheless, renders him powerless when sooner or later, he fails to save the lady from plunging to her dying. Based on the 1954 French novel D’entre les morts, Hitchcock’s adaptation went on to encourage the 1965 Tamil movie Kalangarai Vilakkam, and far later Brian De Palma’s Obsession. While Vertigo obtained combined critiques upon preliminary launch, it quickly gained a cult following, cracking the highest 10 spot in a 1982 survey performed by the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound publication. It is now extensively thought to be one of many biggest movies ever made.
Just a few different Hitchcock movies have been remade beforehand, starting from Gus Van Sant’s shot-by-shot reinterpretation of Psycho to the Michael Douglas-led A Perfect Murder, which is a tackle 1954’s Dial M for Murder. However, this might be the primary time we get a full-blown remake from an American studio. Earlier this week, the Vertigo remake author Knight was introduced onboard to write the untitled Star Wars movie that Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Ms. Marvel) is hooked up to direct. Original screenwriters Damon Lindelof (Lost) and Justin Britt-Gibson (Counterpart) have formally left the undertaking.
