Sacha Gervasi to direct the film
Anthony Hopkins in in talks to play Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock in Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, Montecito’s adaptation of the Stephen Rebello non-fiction book, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil) is in talks to direct the film, which Paramount Pictures is getting a first crack at.
The 1998 book “tracks how Hitchcock, at the height of his game as a director, decided to make a ‘lowly’ horror movie. No studio wanted to touch it initially so Hitchcock scrounged for financing by himself.”
The script by John McLaughlin, who co-wrote Black Swan, is centered on the relationship between Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville.
Hopkins was previously attached an earlier version of the adaptation.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
