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The thriller about a young, naive woman who
marries an older aristocrat but finds herself in the shadow of
his late wife, Rebecca, was an Oscar best picture winner for
director Alfred Hitchcock in 1940, starring Laurence Olivier and
Joan Fontaine. But the ending of the book was changed.
The new film, directed by Ben Wheatley and starring Lily James,
Armie Hammer and Kristin Scott Thomas, will be released on
Netflix on Wednesday.
“I went back to it and kind of re-read it and realized that this
is the first script for a feature version of the book that had
all the plot in it. Before, there had been things taken out and
major story points which had been removed," Wheatley said.
James, who plays the young woman, said the novel was packed with
themes including male-female power dynamics as well as
"obsession and jealousy and the patriarchy and everything within
a very addictive, commercial, gothic horror thriller romance."
Scott Thomas, a longtime fan of the book, said she was thrilled
to be cast as the manipulative housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, played
in the 1940 version by Judith Anderson.
“I reveled in creating her, in creating the image and in the
sort of construction of her. But actually doing it, actually
being her when they say ‘Action’ and having to be so beastly,
it’s actually quite hard,” she said.
"I think people love those sort of stories where something
suddenly appears incredibly realistic and true and you can
really identify with it and then suddenly it sort of slips into
something a bit more of a fantasy,” Scott Thomas said
(Reporting by Rollo Ross; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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