Vertigo: Robert Downey Jr to Play Lead Role in Remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Classic

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The rights for the late filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 cult basic psychological thriller ‘Vertigo’ have been secured by Paramount Pictures.

Vertigo: Robert Downey Jr to Play Lead Role in Remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Cult Classic

Vertigo: The rights for the late filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 cult basic psychological thriller ‘Vertigo’ have been secured by Paramount Pictures. ‘Iron Man’ star Robert Downey Jr is reportedly within the talks for taking part in the lead. The actor is producing the venture together with his spouse Susan Downey by way of their Team Downey manufacturing firm, together with John Davis and John Fox through Davis Entertainment, studies Variety. ‘Peaky Blinders’ creator Steven Knight is ready to put in writing the script, sizzling on the heels of his dedication to put in writing an untitled ‘Star Wars’ film for Lucasfilm, as Variety reported on Wednesday.

Downey has stored a low profile as an actor because the launch of 2019’s ‘Avengers: Endgame’, which is without doubt one of the highest grossing motion pictures ever made, and 2020’s ‘Dolittle’. He produced and appeared within the documentary ‘Sr.,’ about his father, and he’s subsequent set to seem this July in Christopher Nolan’s historic epic ‘Oppenheimer’ reverse Cillian Murphy.

As per Variety, the unique ‘Vertigo’ starred James Stewart as John Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective who retires on account of a paralysing concern of heights introduced on by a extreme case of vertigo. After he’s employed to tail an acquaintance’s spouse, Madeleine (Kim Novak), Scottie turns into obsessed along with her, however his fears render him powerless to save lots of her when she climbs the tower of a Spanish Mission and plunges to her dying. And then issues get really unusual.

‘Vertigo’ was not a smash success when it was first launched in theatres, and it divided critics. But by the Nineteen Eighties, it began to realize recognition as a masterpiece. In 1982, in a survey of the perfect motion pictures ever made by the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound publication (carried out each 10 years), ‘Vertigo’ cracked the highest 10, and continued to climb the checklist, reaching the primary slot within the 2012 survey.

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Published Date: March 25, 2023 12:10 AM IST