I know, after Gus Van Sant‘s pointless shot-for-shot color remake of Alfred Hitchcock‘s legendary classic Psycho, the world of film nuts could reasonably hope people would just leave that movie alone. Well, not quite, although this report [from FirstShowing.net, via 24 Frames] is not as seizure-inducing as Van Sant’s failed experiment:
Sacha Gervasi, the director of the well-received 2009 documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil is “in discussion” to write and helm a film looking at Alfred Hitchcock & The Making of Psycho. The project is, according to “two insiders,” based on the book of that succinct title by Stephen Rebello.
Casting rumors point toward Anthony Hopkins to play the British legend, who has been elevated to the status of God these days (although, to quote William Goldman, “I have my doubts.”), and the project has been on one backburner or another for years. Rebello has written a draft of his 20-year-old book’s adaptation, as has Black Swan scribe John McLaughlin.
While it’s true that Hitchcock could arguably top a hypothetical list of historical film figures whose biopics are long overdue, we can expect something different from Gervasi. Hitchcock had a thing for blonde leading ladies locked in some kind of peril, and according to Kenneth Anger – among many others – Hitch had a voyeur fetish… and such a fetish is all over Psycho. I’m looking forward to this, if Gervasi follows through – the Master was quite the kinky perv, and maybe the world should know it.
What do you think of a film about the Making of Psycho? Would you watch? Do you like to watch?