On that note, there isn't a film coming out in the near future that makes me more queasily anxious than 2013's Hitchcock, which tells the tale of the famed director as he was shooting his most infamous film, Psycho. Directed by Sacha Gervasi, who made a slight impression a few years back with his critically acclaimed documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil. It will open, courtesy of Fox Searchlight, sometime next year...till then I worry! The cast list includes:
Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock. The first still of the barely begun production movie surfaced today and it appears that at the very least, the make-up department is doing a fine job. It's and interesting side note that Psycho is based on the tale of the real-life Ed Gein (somehow put into the film itself, being portrayed by stage actor Michael Wincott), the same figure that was the source for other films and mythologies including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs (which won Hopkins an Oscar for his iconic performance as Hannibal Lector; small world.) Helen Mirren portrays his wife Alma.
Scarlett Johansson will play Janet Leigh
James D'Arcy (W.E.) will play Anthony Perkins
And the rest of the cast will be rounded out by Toni Collette, Danny Huston, Wallace Langham, Michael Stuhlbarg and Kurtwood Smith. The film was written by Stephen Rebello (author of the novel on which the film is based on) and John J. McLaughlin (Black Swan.) What do you think of the casting? Is anyone else geeking out of their minds?
I have to calm down about this for a whole year.......
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