Another day, another remake on the way.

It’s being reported that DreamWorks Pictures and Working Title Films will be remaking one of Alfred Hitchcock‘s many classics, the Best Picture winner from 1940, Rebecca, which starred Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine.

Screenwriter Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) has been hired to pen the script, and he will be going back to the original novel of the same name by author Daphne du Maurier.

The book tells the story of a woman who marries a rich widower and moves into his mansion, where his deceased wife still very much lingers and his housekeeper isn’t exactly receptive to his new wife’s presence.

[Source: Showblitz]