"Eastern Promises" screenwriter Steven Knight has written an adaptation of the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock gothic 'mystery noir' "Rebecca", based on author Daphne DuMaurier‘s novel, for director Nikolaj Arcel.
Hitchcock's 1940 psychological thriller, winner of two Oscars, stars Laurence Olivier as the aristocratic widower 'Maxim de Winter', Joan Fontaine as his second wife, and Judith Anderson as psychotic housekeeper, 'Mrs. Danvers':
"...in 'Rebecca', the heroine (Fontaine) is a paid companion to the wealthy but obnoxious 'Edythe Van Hopper' (Florence Bates), when she meets widower 'Maximilian de Winter' (Olivier) in Monte Carlo. They fall in love, and within two weeks they are married.
"Maxim takes his new bride to 'Manderley', his country house in Cornwall, England. The housekeeper, 'Mrs. Danvers' (Judith Anderson), is domineering and cold, and is obsessed with the great beauty, intelligence and sophistication of the first 'Mrs. de Winter', aka 'Rebecca', preserving her former bedroom as a shrine.
"The new Mrs. de Winter is intimidated by her responsibilities and begins to doubt her relationship with her husband, with the continuous reminders of Rebecca and the bizarre attitude of Mrs. Danvers overwhelming her..."
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