“Tomb Raider” and “Ex Machina” actress Alicia Vikander is being eyed to star in “Dial M for Murder,” a limited series adaptation that reimagines Frederick Knott’s 1952 play and the subsequent 1954 Alfred Hitchcock feature from a female perspective.
A network is not yet attached to the MGM/UA Television produced anthology series that will apparently reset each season. The project marks Vikander’s debut as a series regular on U.S. television.
The original story revolves around a man who learned his wife is having an affair. He decides to murder her, blackmailing an ex-con to do the deed, both for revenge and to ensure that the money he’ll collect from her life insurance will continue to fund his comfortable lifestyle.
The property has been adapted several times to the screen both as filmed versions of the play for television along with the famed Hitchcock film in 1954 starring Grace Kelly. The closest to a modern reimagining is 1998’s “A Perfect Murder” with Michael Douglas as the husband, Gwyneth Paltrow as the wife and Viggo Mortensen as the ex-con who in that version is also the one having the affair with the wife (see the trailer below).
Michael Mitnick (“Vinyl”) created the new take while Terence Winter (“Boardwalk Empire,” “The Sopranos”) will oversee the creative and executive produce the series alongside Vikander, Charles Collier, Andrew Mittman and Lloyd Braun. Winter recently signed on to write and exec produce the HBO Max TV series spinoff of Matt Reeves’ “The Batman”.
Source: The Live Feed
