Kevin Bacon is going to try to bring Rear Window to the stage in a new adaptation of the Alfred Hitchcock classic that starred James Stewart and Grace Kelly.
The production will start at the Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut before hopefully heading to Broadway, reports Variety. It will be directed by Tony winner Darko Tresnjak (A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder) and written by Keith Reddin. Like the 1954 Hitchcock film, it will be adapted from the 1942 short story by Cornell Woolrich.
Bacon will star in the role Stewart made famous, a photographer stuck in a wheelchair in his New York apartment. He thinks he sees a murder in the neighboring building. Shia LaBeouf starred in the 2007 remake Disturbia and Christopher Reeve was in a 1998 TV version.
This will be Bacon’s first time on Broadway in over a decade. As Entertainment Weekly notes, he was last seen on Broadway in 2002’s An Almost Holy Picture. He also starred in Slab Boys in 1993.
Rear Window will run in Hartford from Oct. 22 to Nov. 15.
Bacon was just seen in Fox’s The Following and will next be seen in Black Mass with Johnny Depp on Sept. 18. His other recent films include Cop Car, X-Men: First Class and Crazy Stupid Love.
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