Robert Downey Jr. to star in remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo': Reports
- By Web Desk -
- Mar 25, 2023
Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr. is reportedly eyeing the lead role in Paramount Pictures’ remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’.
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Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to remake Hitchcock’s 1958 psychological thriller starring Jimmy Stewart in the lead role of a former police detective who was forced to retire after a line of duty trauma that left him with a fear of heights and vertigo.
Reportedly Robert Downey Dr. is eyeing the main role of Stewart in the title.
Downey and his wife Susan, along with John Davis and John Fox, via their Team Downey and Davis Entertainment respectively, have joined to produce the project, while filmmaker Steven Knight of ‘Peaky Blinders’ has been roped in to write the screenplay.
It is pertinent to mention here that Paramount released the original title more than six decades ago, scripted by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor, based on Boileau-Narcejac’s french mystery novel ‘D’entre les morts’ (The Living and the Dead).
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‘Vertigo’ received mixed reviews upon its initial release and was not a smashing success. However, it began to get recognition during the 1980s and is now cited as a cult Hitchcock film and one of his defining works.