Ben Wheatley to direct Rebecca
Ben Wheatley in on board to direct Dreamworks’ and Working Title’s forthcoming adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.
Wheatley will be calling the shots from a screenplay by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
Du Maurier’s classic story was first published in 1938 and has not been out of print since.
The novel has been dramatized several times for both film and television, the most famous being Hitchcock’s 1940 feature with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine.
Free Fire director Wheatley’s future slate also includes Freak Shift, in which a group of misfit mercenaries band together to pursue and kill evil nocturnal creatures.
Working Title Films is also busy on Cats, the Tom Hooper-directed version of the hit stage show that starts filming later this year starring Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, James Corden and Ian McKellen.
Details on all these projects can be found on Production Intelligence. Non-subscribers can click here for a free online demo.
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