London’s West End audiences are about to get theatrical adaptations of two classic films. A stage version of Strangers on a Train will begin in November, while Fatal Attraction will open in March 2014.
Strangers on a Train is based on the Patricia Highsmith novel, which Alfred Hitchcock filmed in 1951. According to Deadline, the play will be produced by Barbara Broccoli (the Bond films) and Michael G. Wilson. The cast includes Laurence Fox, Jack Huston, Miranda Raison, Christian McKay, MyAnna Buring and Imogen Stubbs. Robert Allan Ackerman will direct. It will be staged at the Gielgud Theatre and previews begin on Nov. 2.
The story centers on two men who meet on a train and have one thing in common - they have someone they’d like to murder. So they joke about swapping murders. Unfortunately, one of the men takes the dream too seriously and follows through with the other man’s murder.
Fans of the Michael Douglas/Glenn Close film Fatal Attraction will have to wait until next spring for the stage version. The Independent reports that it will begin at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on March 8, 2014. The production will run 15 weeks.
Fatal Attraction centers on Dan Gallagher’s dangerous affair with a psychopath. Close earned an Oscar nomination. James Dearden, who wrote the film’s screenplay, also wrote the stage version. Sir Trevor Nunn is directing.
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