Fox Searchlight have greenlit a biopic of legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock after being stuck in the development stage for the past four years at Paramount Pictures. Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins has been attached to play Hitchcock since the projects early beginnings while Helen Mirren is now expected to take the role of his wife Alma Reville. The film is set to take place during the making of his most iconic film PSYCHO, hence the projects obvious current title ALFRED HITCHCOCK AND THE MAKING OF PSYCHO.
BLACK SWAN scribe John Mclaughlin has penned the script based on the non-fiction book by Stephen Rebello that charts Hitchcock’s struggles to get his film made.ANVIL: THE STORY OF ANVIL director Sacha Gervasi is set to helm.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
