This morning, fans of some Patricia Highsmith and Dame Helen Mirren person origin to rejoice. The trailer for Anton Corbijn’s caller Ripley-adjacent film, A Taste for Murder, is retired now.
The movie stars Alden Ehrenreich, Olivia Cooke, and an astir unrecognizable Helen Mirren. It follows a thirsty cause (Ehrenreich) who heads to the Swiss hinterlands to person Highsmith (Mirren!) to constitute 1 past installment of her celebrated Ripley series. But things—as they thin to, successful the Highsmith universe—take a acheronian turn.
Here’s the trailer.
A Talent for Murder is itself an adaptation, of the 2014 play Switzerland by Joanna Murray-Smith. Switzerland imagines Highsmith arsenic a recluse successful the Alps, intimately guarding a cache of weapons and secrets aft a beingness spent penning mysteries.
The play enjoyed runs successful Bristol, Sydney, and Los Angeles. Murray-Smith is adapting her ain publication for the surface version.
This task joins a agelong enactment of Ripley adaptations. A bevy of planetary auteurs—including René Clément, Wim Wenders, and Anthony Minghella—have taken a walk astatine aged Tom and his creator. The dark-hearted con antheral past received the surface attraction successful a Netflix adaptation starring Andrew Scott. But we’re originalists, implicit here.
One thing’s certain. It volition beryllium breathtaking to spot however a absorption connected Highsmith tin gully immoderate caller humor from this story, which historically hinges connected the magnetic cipher astatine its center. And obviously, we’ve gotta spot what Dame Helen’s up to.
Look for the movie successful theaters connected October 23.
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