{"id":15852,"date":"2023-03-23T21:16:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T01:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=15852"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:29:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:29:43","slug":"robert-downey-jr-set-to-star-in-remake-of-hitchcocks-vertigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=15852","title":{"rendered":"Robert Downey, Jr. Set to Star in Remake of Hitchcock&#8217;s &#8216;Vertigo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Heads are spinning at the prospect of a remake of Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s classic 1958 film, <em><strong>Vertigo<\/strong><\/em>.<br \/><br \/>As first reported by <em>Deadline<\/em>, Robert Downey Jr. will be starring in the new film for Paramount Pictures. He\u2019s producing the project via his Team Downey entity (which also including his wife Susan Downey) in conjunction with John Davis and John Fox at Davis Entertainment. The new <strong>Vertigo<\/strong> script will be penned by Steven Knight (<em><strong>Peaky Blinders<\/strong><\/em>), who is also writing a new Star Wars screenplay for Lucasfilm, says <em>Variety<\/em>.<br \/><br \/>Downey recently appeared in <em><strong>Avengers: Endgame<\/strong><\/em>, which quickly became a blockbuster hit in terms of box-office receipts after its 2019 release. He also appeared in the less lucrative <em><strong>Dolittle<\/strong><\/em>, which came out in 2020, and in the documentary <em>Sr<\/em>. about his father, a film he also produced. This summer, Downey will appear opposite Cillian Murphy in <em><strong>Oppenheimer<\/strong><\/em>, a historical epic by Christopher Nolan.<br \/><br \/>Hitchcock\u2019s original <em><strong>Vertigo<\/strong> <\/em>debuted in 1958, starring James Stewart as a San Francisco detective with an intense fear of heights. He becomes obsessed with a woman he\u2019s investigating (played by Kim Novak), who ultimately plunges to her death from the tower of a Spanish mission.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy desyrel online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amayadental.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/png\/desyrel.html\">https:\/\/www.amayadental.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/png\/desyrel.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<br> In a 2012 survey by the British Film Institute, the film was ranked number one in its list of the 100 best films of all time.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy clomiphene online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amayadental.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/png\/clomiphene.html\">https:\/\/www.amayadental.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/png\/clomiphene.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<br> <em>Variety <\/em>recently ranked it 32nd in a similar listing.<br \/><br \/><em><strong>Vertigo<\/strong> <\/em>was inspired by the French novel <em>D\u2019entre les morts<\/em>, which was set in Paris during World War II. The original scriptwriters were Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor. The 1958 film was the first to make use of the so-called dolly zoom, a device that creates disorientation by altering the visual perspective of the viewers.<br \/><br \/>This is not the first time that <em><strong>Vertigo<\/strong> <\/em>has been tinkered with. In 1965, it was remade as a Tamil-language thriller titled <em><strong>Kalangarai Vilakkam<\/strong><\/em>. In 2022, a video game adaptation was released, but critics were underwhelmed.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward&#8217;s articles<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads are spinning at the prospect of a remake of Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s classic 1958 film, Vertigo. As first reported by Deadline, Robert Downey Jr. will be starring in the new film for Paramount Pictures. He\u2019s producing the project via his Team Downey entity (which also including his wife Susan Downey) in conjunction with John Davis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[14895,14893,14894,8295,2645,8297,8296,4800],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Robert Downey, Jr. Set to Star in Remake of Hitchcock&#039;s &#039;Vertigo&#039; | Cinema Daily US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=15852\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robert Downey, Jr. Set to Star in Remake of Hitchcock&#039;s &#039;Vertigo&#039; | Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Heads are spinning at the prospect of a remake of Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s classic 1958 film, Vertigo. 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