David Fincher, Ben Affleck and Gillian Flynn had so much fun working together that that plan on making another movie together again. It has been reported that the trio will do a remake of Strangers on a Train.
News of the deal was first reported by Deadline, which notes that they want to simply the film’s title to just Strangers. It will be produced at Warner Bros. under Affleck and Matt Damon’s Pearl Street banner. Jon Berg is overseeing for the studio.
While Alfred Hitchcock famously filmed the Patricia Highsmith novel in 1951 for the same studio, the new version will update the story. Affleck will slide into the role Farley Granger played in the film. Granger’s character wanted to get a divorce, a fact he mentions to the wrong psychopath. In Strangers, Affleck will play a movie star who meets a psychopath on a plane instead of a train.
Affleck is about to start work on The Accountant for Warner Bros. and is eventually going to direct the studio’s adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s Live by Night. Of course, he also stars in the studio’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Batman.
Flynn, Fincher and Affleck had incredible success with Fox’s Gone Girl, which grossed an astonishing $350 million worldwide. That film was based on Flynn’s own novel.
Hopefully Fincher’s eventual film will prove that a good remake of a Hitchcock movie is possible.
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