The Gone Girl team is getting back together to take on a classic.
David Fincher is set to direct and Ben Affleck will star in a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951). Gone Girl author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn will adapt the script.
According to Variety, Flynn’ script will follow “a movie star in the middle of an Oscar campaign whose private plane breaks down and is given a ride to L.A. on another plane by a wealthy stranger.” Thankfully, the remake will not be called Strangers on a Plane, but simply Strangers.
Affleck will of course play the “movie star.” While he will be busy directing Live By Night (based on the Dennis Lehane novel) this year, and being Batman in Justice League (2017), he is expected to find some time in between the two projects to film the role.
