Unusual: Robert Downey Jr. is interested in playing the lead role of James Stewart, a former police detective who is forced to retire after experiencing traumas in the line of duty that leave him with a fear of heights and vertigo. The remake of the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock psychological thriller vertigo has already been acquired by Paramount Pictures. Steven Knight, a producer of Peaky Blinders and Peaky Look, who just agreed to write a Star Wars movie, will pen the script.
Together with Robert and Susan Downey of Team Downey, producers include Jon Davis and John Fox of Davis Entertainment.
The Hitchcock estate supported Paramount as a landing point for the studio, which produced the original movie, which was produced by Paramount. Alec Koppel and Samuel A. Taylor both contributed to the original, which was adapted from d’entre les morts by Boileau-Narcéjac (of the dead)
A friend of his hires a police investigator to follow his wife, whom he believes to be acting inappropriately, while he is away from his tormentors. The dolly zoom, an in-camera tool that distorts perspective to induce disorientation and immerse the audience into the police’s acrophobia dilemma, was used for the first time in this movie.
Team Downey has Perry Mason in Season Two of HBO, and Downey is starring in the sympathetic for A24 and HBO, which Park Chan-wook directed. Harold and the Purple Crayon And Unattractive is on Davis Entertainment.
Joey Feehily and Hansen Jacobson take over for Downey’s role at WME, while CAA and Nelson Davis take over for Knight.
