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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has preemptively acquired a remake of the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock-directed psychological thriller Vertigo, with Robert Downey Jr eyeing the James Stewart lead function of the previous police detective compelled to retire after a line of responsibility trauma that leaves him with concern of heights and vertigo. The script will probably be written by Steven Knight, the See and Peaky Blinders creator who simply signed on to jot down a Star Wars movie.

Davis Entertainment’s John Davis and John Fox are producing with Team Downey’s Robert and Susan Downey.

Paramount was the house for the unique movie, and the Hitchcock Estate favored the studio because the touchdown spot for this. The unique was scripted by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor from the Boileau-Narcejac novel D’entre les morts (From Among the Dead).

After he’s shelved by his affliction, the police detective is employed by an acquaintance to shadow his spouse, who he feels is behaving erratically. The movie was the primary to make use of the dolly zoom, an in-camera gadget that distorts perspective to create disorientation and pull audiences into the cop’s acrophobia situation.

Team Downey has Perry Mason in Season Two on HBO, and Downey is starring within the Park Chan-wook-directed The Sympathizer for A24 and HBO. Davis Entertainment is in put up on Harold and the Purple Crayon and Uglies.

Downey is repped by WME, Joy Fehily and Hansen Jacobson; Knight is CAA and Nelson Davis.