Noam Murro, the recipient of this year's DGA Award for outstanding directorial achievement in commercials, has signed on to direct Warner Bros. Pictures' new version of "Strangers on a Train" says The Hollywood Reporter.
David Seltzer is writing the screenplay for the adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel, which was first made into a film in 1951 by Alfred Hitchcock. Robert Walker and Farley Granger starred in the original Hitchcock movie, with Granger playing a tennis pro who jokes about killing the father of a stranger he meets in return for the other man killing Granger's wife.
Murro has directed a wide variety of commercials, including spots for Adidas, Nike, Starbucks, Bud Light and eBay. He also was nominated for the DGA Award in 2003 and 2004.
Thanks to 'Goofy'
