After collaborating on last year’s Gone Girl, David Fincher and Ben Affleck are again teaming up to remake the Alfred Hitchcock classic Strangers on a Train, according to Deadline.
The remake will be a contemporary version and will switch the pivotal meeting from a train to a plane. The film will reportedly be titled Strangers, and Gillian Flynn, the author of Gone Girl, is also said to be in talks to write the screenplay.
As per Deadline, “Affleck will play a variation of the role played by Farley Granger of a tennis pro who is bored with his marriage and wants to get divorced, but instead gets entwined with a wealthy socialite psycho who proposes the notion of exchanging murders. The twist here is a compelling one. Affleck will play a movie star–in the middle of a campaign for an Oscar during awards season–whose private plane breaks down and is given a ride to LA on another plane by a wealthy stranger.”
It is unclear when we can expect to see Strangers, especially with Affleck having such a busy schedule ahead with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Live by Night, The Accountant, Justice League Part One and Justice League Part Two on his slate.
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Originally published January 14, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
