13th Street reports that Dragonfly screenwriter David Seltzer has penned a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 suspense classic Strangers on a Train … We were assigned "Strangers on a Train" … The Gone Girl creative team is planning to remake an Alfred Hitchcock movie. By. Strangers on a Train [Remake] S. Strangers on a Train [Remake] Producer N/A. Strangers on a Train. A murder plot hatched by two men who meet on a train is considered to be a joke by one of them, and a dangerously real plan by the other. EXCLUSIVE: Ben Affleck and David Fincher will reteam on a Warner Bros remake of the classic Hitchcock thriller Strangers On A Train. Footnotes [ edit ] ^ "Books Published Today". Platforms theater. This made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (1951) follows the same story, but has changed the genders of the lead characters from male to female. Sheila Gaines is a former child star whose first husband is unwilling to give her a divorce. As broken Tuesday afternoon by Deadline, director Fincher and star Affleck are remaking Strangers on a … We were assigned "Strangers on a Train" and the scene we chose called "A Perfect Murder… Let's exclude Danny DeVito's Throw Momma from the Train (1988), a veritable parody of Strangers on a Train (1951), from consideration here. Garth Franklin - Wednesday, July 22nd 2015 3:46 pm. Release Date unreleased. Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. Directed by David Fincher. Latest News. Gillian Flynn, who adapted her … It's being reported that Gone Girl's Ben Affleck, David Fincher and Gillian Flynn are all reteaming to do a Strangers on a Train remake called Strangers. Also, insofar as Hitchcock rarely wrote his own screenplays, readily using material from outside sources (such as novels, plays, ideas from scriptwriters), the 'remakes' that we'll be looking at here were based, as a rule, on the same source material as the original films. Strangers on A Train Remake Stalled. Our film project was to reshoot and edit our choice of scene from a movie that our team was assigned. nr. The Gone Girl creative team is planning to remake an Alfred Hitchcock movie. EXCLUSIVE: Ben Affleck and David Fincher will reteam on a Warner Bros remake of the classic Hitchcock thriller Strangers On A Train. Strangers ist das Remake von Alfred Hitchcocks Film Der Fremde im Zug (OT: Strangers on a Train) aus dem Jahr 1951, allerdings mit einer an heutige Zeiten angepassten Story. Following the success of "Gone Girl," David Fincher and Ben Affleck are reteaming for a new take on another classic story. Remake = a film which tells the same story, often with the same title, as a previous production. Review. Gillian Flynn, … Gillian Flynn… EXCLUSIVE : Ben Affleck and David Fincher will reteam on a Warner Bros remake of the classic Hitchcock thriller Strangers On A Train. The 1987 film Throw Momma from the Train provides a comedic twist on Strangers on a Train, with the Hitchcock film inspiring a copy-cat scheme by Danny DeVito's character. The New York Times : 27. Flynn is in talks to pen the script based on the 1951 release, but it will be a contemporary retelling. Our film project was to reshoot and edit our choice of scene from a movie that our team was assigned. This isn't to deny that DeVito handles the parody reasonably skilfully, and doesn't take himself too seriously. With Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Mancuso, Theresa Russell, Art Bonilla.