EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has preemptively acquired a remake of the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock-directed psychological thriller Vertigo, with Robert Downey Jr eyeing the James Stewart lead role of the former police detective forced to retire after a line of duty trauma that leaves him with fear of heights and vertigo.
The script will be written by Steven Knight, the See and Peaky Blinders creator who just signed on to write a Star Wars film.
Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and John Fox are producing with Team Downey’s Robert and Susan Downey. Paramount was the home for the original film, and the Hitchcock Estate favored the studio as the landing spot for this.
The original was scripted by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor from the Boileau-Narcejac novel D’entre les morts (From Among the Dead).
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