BREAKING MOVIE/TV NEWS

Thursday, February 09, 2012

DreamWorks Obssessed With "Rebecca"

DreamWorks reports it will develop author Daphne du Maurier's 1938, romantic suspense novel "Rebecca" for the big screen, with writer Steven Knight ("Eastern Promises") adapting a new screenplay.

"Rebecca' was previously adapted by director Alfred Hitchcock for producer David O. Selznick, in the 1940 feature starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and George Sanders.

"..when a naive young woman marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion, she finds the memory of his first wife 'Rebecca' maintaining a grip on her husband and the household servants..."

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