But the choice to keep its original time and place, along with not really making any excessive changes from either the novel or Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 adaptation (which remains the only Hitch flick to win Best Picture) renders it little more than a colorized version of what already exists. Lilly James and Armie Hammer are fine as the, uh, mismatched couple while Kristin Scott Thomas adds some “subtext-made-text” shadings to the iconic Mrs. They are both inferior to the previous filmed versions of their source material and offer so little that would qualify as different so as to render them redundant and irrelevant.Īnonymously directed by Ben Wheatley ( Kill List, Free Fire, High Rise), Rebecca coasts entirely on its lavish production values which recreate the novel’s 1938 setting and its three key performances. theatrical distribution and the other always intended for Netflix streaming, suffer from the same problem. Both films, one intended for Warner Bros. NFLX re-adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca is currently among their most-watched movies since Wednesday. Moreover, with Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 having vanished from the top-ten in less than a week (that’s a conversation for another day), Netflix’s
While nobody is offering official numbers, I’m willing to presume that the most-watched movie on HBO Max over the weekend was Robert Zemeckis’ re-adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches.
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