“Someone Great” filmmaker and “Sweet/Vicious” creator Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is tackling a contemporary teenage feature at Netflix inspired by author Patricia Highsmith’s novel “Strangers on a Train”
“Strangers” is a dark comedy that will follow unlikely cohorts Drew (an ‘it’ girl) and Eleanor (an ‘alt’ girl) who agree to go after one another’s bullies. Robinson co-wrote the story with with her “Sweet/Vicious” collaborator Celeste Ballard.
Anthony Bregman and Peter Cron of Likely Story will produce alongside Robinson. Robinson recently worked on the screenplay for Taika Waititi’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” and has The CW series “Obsessed” in the works.
The original “Strangers on a Train” story, which involves two men who happen to meet on a train and agreeing to ‘swap murders’, was most famously adapted for the screen in 1951 by Alfred Hitchcock and is often considered one of his greatest works.
Source: Variety
