Robert Downey Jr. in Talks to Star in Paramount's 'Vertigo' Remake

Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to remake Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 psychological thriller, Vertigo, with Robert Downey Jr. potentially starring in the lead role. The script will be written by Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders and See. The original film was scripted by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor from the Boileau-Narcejac novel D’entre les morts (From Among the Dead). The film was the first to use the dolly zoom, an in-camera device that distorts perspective to create disorientation and pull audiences into the cop’s acrophobia condition.