Rebecca Trailer: Ben Wheatley Goes To Manderley With Lily James And Armie Hammer

With each film, British director Ben Wheatley seems to adopt that Monty Python adage: ‘And now for something completely different.’ From gangster movie to cult hitman thriller, to caravan comedy murder rampage, to psychedelic civil war freakout, to bullet-by-bullet shootout, to dysfunctional family comedy, the man behind Kill List, Sightseers, Free Fire and more now finds himself at a gothic romance, adapting a new version of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. It’s an almost-ghost story that has inspired all sorts films (especially Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak) and was, most famously, previously adapted by none other than Alfred Hitchcock. But Wheatley’s take looks like something new. Watch the full trailer.

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