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Remakes of films by Alfred Hitchcock

A number of films directed by Alfred Hitchcock have been remade, with official remakes of Murder! and The Man Who Knew Too Much being directed by Hitchcock himself. North by Northwest and Saboteur are also considered by some scholars to be unofficial remakes of Hitchcock's English espionage thriller The 39 Steps.[1][2][3] This list does not include sequels (such as the films that followed the 1960 version of Psycho), but it does include films based on the same original source materials as were used by Hitchcock (such as the multiple films based on Marie Belloc Lowndes's novel The Lodger).

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Remake Original Hitchcock film[4] Source material[4] Comments and citations
Year Title Director Country Year Title Year Title Writer(s)
1931 Mary Alfred Hitchcock UK 1930 Murder! 1928 Enter Sir John (novel) Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson [5]
1932 The Lodger Maurice Elvey UK 1927 The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1913 The Lodger (novel) Marie Belloc Lowndes [6]
1944 The Lodger John Brahm USA 1927 The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1913 The Lodger (novel) Marie Belloc Lowndes [6]
1953 Man in the Attic Hugo Fregonese USA 1927 The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1913 The Lodger (novel) Marie Belloc Lowndes [6]
1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much Alfred Hitchcock USA 1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934 Original screenplay Charles Bennett
D. B. Wyndham-Lewis
Edwin Greenwood (scenario)
A. R. Rawlinson (scenario)		 [7]
1958 Step Down to Terror Harry Keller USA 1943 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Original screenplay Story: Gordon McDonell
Screenplay:
Thornton Wilder
Sally Benson
Alma Reville		 [8][9]
1958 Dial M for Murder George Schaefer USA 1954 Dial M for Murder 1952 Dial M for Murder (stage play) Frederick Knott [10]
1959 The Fifth Stair Vincent Sherman USA 1954 Dial M for Murder 1952 Dial M for Murder (stage play) Frederick Knott [10]
1959 The 39 Steps Ralph Thomas UK 1935 The 39 Steps 1915 The Thirty-Nine Steps (novel) John Buchan [11]
1962 Dial M for Murder Alan Bridges USA 1954 Dial M for Murder 1952 Dial M for Murder (stage play) Frederick Knott [10]
1967 Dial M for Murder John Llewellyn Moxey USA 1954 Dial M for Murder 1952 Dial M for Murder (stage play) Frederick Knott [12][10]
1969 Once You Kiss a Stranger Robert Sparr USA 1951 Strangers on a Train 1950 Strangers on a Train (novel) Patricia Highsmith [13]
1976 Obsession Brian De Palma USA 1958 Vertigo 1954 The Living and the Dead (novel) Boileau-Narcejac [14]
1978 The Thirty Nine Steps Don Sharp UK 1935 The 39 Steps 1915 The Thirty-Nine Steps (novel) John Buchan [11]
1979 The Lady Vanishes Anthony Page UK 1938 The Lady Vanishes 1936 The Wheel Spins (novel) Ethel Lina White [15]
1980 Dressed to Kill Brian De Palma USA 1960 Psycho 1959 Psycho (novel) Robert Bloch [16]
1981 Dial M for Murder Boris Sagal USA 1954 Dial M for Murder 1952 Dial M for Murder (stage play) Frederick Knott [10]
1984 Body Double Brian De Palma USA 1954, 1958 Rear Window and Vertigo 1942, 1954 "It Had to Be Murder" (short story)
The Living and the Dead (novel)		 Cornell Woolrich
Boileau-Narcejac		 [17][18]
1991 Shadow of a Doubt Karen Arthur USA 1943 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Original screenplay Story: Gordon McDonell
Screenplay:
Thornton Wilder
Sally Benson
Alma Reville		 [19]
1992 Notorious Colin Bucksey USA 1946 Notorious 1946 Original screenplay Ben Hecht [20]
1993 Lifepod Ron Silver USA 1944 Lifeboat 1944 Original screenplay Story: John Steinbeck
Screenplay:
Jo Swerling		 [21]
1996 Once You Meet a Stranger Tommy Lee Wallace USA 1951 Strangers on a Train 1950 Strangers on a Train (novel) Patricia Highsmith [22]
1996 The Secret Agent Christopher Hampton UK 1936 Sabotage 1907 The Secret Agent (novel) Joseph Conrad [23]
1998 A Perfect Murder Andrew Davis USA 1954 Dial M for Murder 1952 Dial M for Murder (stage play) Frederick Knott [24]
1998 Rear Window Jeff Bleckner USA 1954 Rear Window 1942 "It Had to Be Murder" (short story) Cornell Woolrich [25]
1998 Psycho Gus Van Sant USA 1960 Psycho 1959 Psycho (novel) Robert Bloch [26]
2000 Mission: Impossible 2 John Woo USA 1946 Notorious 1946 Original screenplay Ben Hecht [27]
2007 Disturbia D. J. Caruso USA 1954 Rear Window 1942 "It Had to Be Murder" (short story) Cornell Woolrich [28]
2001 Officer Naeem Sha India 1958 Vertigo 1954 The Living and the Dead (novel) Boileau-Narcejac [citation needed]
2008 Easy Virtue Stephan Elliott UK 1928 Easy Virtue 1925 Easy Virtue (stage play) Noël Coward [29]
2008 The 39 Steps James Hawes UK 1935 The 39 Steps 1915 The Thirty-Nine Steps (novel) John Buchan [11]
2009 The Lodger David Ondaatje USA 1927 The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1913 The Lodger (novel) Marie Belloc Lowndes [30]
2020 Rebecca Ben Wheatley USA 1940 Rebecca 1938 Rebecca (novel) Daphne du Maurier [31]

Announced remakes

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After the success of Gone Girl, in January 2015 it was announced that David Fincher would direct a remake of Strangers on a Train with Ben Affleck to star with a script penned by Gillian Flynn.[32] In April 2024, it was reported that Netflix had greenlit the remake, now titled Strangers.[33] Fincher is also reportedly attached to remake Rope, with Denzel Washington rumored to star.[34]

In March 2023, it was reported that Paramount Pictures acquired the remake rights to Vertigo, with Steven Knight set to write the script and Robert Downey Jr. set to star.[35] As of March 2025, Knight is still working on the screenplay.[36]

In February 2024, it was announced that Kevin Williamson is developing a television series based on Rear Window for Peacock and Universal Television.[37]

References

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  1. ^ Sauveur, Trace. "The 39 Steps: Alfred Hitchcock's Fun, Flighty Trial Run of North By Northwest". Paste Magazine. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  2. ^ Eberwein, Robert. "PART ONE—NEXT OF KIN: REMAKES AND HOLLYWOOD". publishing.cdlib.org. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  3. ^ Bligh, William Oliver McLean (2018). "Remaking The 39 Steps : Hitchcock's screenwriting and identification". Open Publications of UTS Scholars. UTS. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  4. ^ a b McGilligan, Patrick (2003). Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. ReganBooks. pp. 751–785. ISBN 9780060393229.
  5. ^ Chandler, Charlotte (2005). It's Only a Movie -- Alfred Hitchock: A Personal Biography. Simon & Schuster. pp. 77–80. ISBN 9780743245081.
  6. ^ a b c "Man in the Attic. 1953. Directed by Hugo Fregonese". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved June 9, 2025.
  7. ^ McGilligan, Patrick (2003). Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. ReganBooks. pp. 154–160, 508–511. ISBN 9780060393229.
  8. ^ Derry, Charles (2010). The Suspense Thriller: Films in the Shadow of Alfred Hitchcock. McFarland. p. 236. ISBN 9780786462407. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  9. ^ McGilligan, Patrick (2003). Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. ReganBooks. pp. 306–313. ISBN 9780060393229.
  10. ^ a b c d e Grant, John (2023). A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir: The Essential Reference Guide. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 183–184. ISBN 9781493081653. Retrieved August 12, 2025.
  11. ^ a b c Eckhart, Daniel Martin (February 8, 2025). "The many, many Thirty-Nine Steps". Substack. To Live and Let Die. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  12. ^ "DIAL M FOR MURDER". MUBI. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  13. ^ "Robert Sparr's 'Once You Kiss a Stranger'". The New York Times. April 16, 1970. Retrieved August 10, 2025. ACCORDING to the critic's sheet, the screenplay to Robert Sparr's "Once you Kiss a Stranger," playing with "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed," was suggested by a novel by Patricia Highsmith. I assume the novel is "Strangers on a Train," for "Once You Kiss a Stranger" builds upon the same premise of murder by surrogate that Alfred Hitchcock used in his great 1951 film.But in place of the psychological complexities of Hitchcock's "Strangers," this movie substitutes a few sexual simplicities. And for the multiple personalities crises of Farley Granger and Robert Walker, it offers a one-dimensional parody of psychotic menace as bad-girl Carol Lynley preys upon good-guy Paul Burke.
  14. ^ Ornelas, Joseph (November 18, 2024). "Brian De Palma Pays Homage to Hitchcock in This Neo-Noir Thriller". Collider. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  15. ^ Free, Erin. "Unsung Auteurs: Anthony Page". FilmInk. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  16. ^ Ebert, Roger (1992). Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion (1992 ed.). Andrews and McMeel. p. 67. ISBN 9780836262421. In sequences inspired by Rear Window, he begins to follow the woman... ...but he keeps his distance because he's caught in the same dilemma as Jimmy Stewart was in the Hitchcock picture: He is, after all, technically a Peeping Tom, and he wouldn't know the woman was in danger if he hadn't been breaking the law.
  17. ^ Ebert, Roger (1992). Roger Ebert's Movie Home Companion (1992 ed.). Andrews and McMeel. pp. 167–168. ISBN 9780836262421. But I doubt that De Palma wants us to take his explanations very seriously; the pseudoscientific jargon used to "explain" the case reminds me of that terrible psychiatric explanation at the end of Psycho - A movie De Palma has been quoting from all along.
  18. ^ Canby, Vincent (October 26, 1984). "FILM: DEPALMA EVOKES 'VERTIGO' IN BODY DOUBLE". New York Times. Retrieved August 10, 2025. Body Double, opening today at the United Artists Twin and other theaters, again goes too far, which is the reason to see it. It's sexy and explicitly crude, entertaining and sometimes very funny. It's his most blatant variation to date on a Hitchcock film (Vertigo), but it's also a De Palma original, a movie that might have offended Hitchcock's wryly avuncular public personality, while appealing to his darker, most private fantasies.
  19. ^ Wain, Dave (January 19, 2021). "Life's a Hitch: Shadow of a Doubt (1991)". The Schlock Pit. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  20. ^ Martin, Adrian (September 1993). "Notorious". adrianmartinfilmcritic.com. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  21. ^ Scott, Tony (June 28, 1993). "Fox Night at the Movies Lifepod". Variety. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  22. ^ Scott, Tony (September 26, 1996). "Once You Meet a Stranger". Variety. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  23. ^ Ebert, Roger (December 13, 1996). "The Secret Agent". rogerebert.com. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  24. ^ Harari, Julia (May 5, 2024). "How 'A Perfect Murder' Updated Hitchcock's 'Dial M for Murder'". Collider. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  25. ^ Wain, Dave (October 15, 2023). "Rear Window (1998): Without a Hitch". The Schlock Pit. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  26. ^ "Gus Van Sant reflects on Psycho remake". Bloody Flicks. December 4, 2023. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  27. ^ Ruuskanen, Emily (3 May 2025). "Tom Cruise's secret Alfred Hitchcock remake: "It worked wonderfully well"". Far Out. Retrieved June 22, 2025.
  28. ^ Schager, Nick; Gonzalez, Ed (July 19, 2007). "DVD Review: D.J. Caruso's Disturbia on DreamWorks Home Entertainment". Slant. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  29. ^ Mondello, Bob (May 22, 2009). "'Virtue,' Old And New: At Least The Silent's Golden". All Things Considered. National Public Radio. Wisconsin Public Radio. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  30. ^ Gilbert, Victoria (September 30, 2024). "The Legacy of 'The Lodger' – Marie Belloc Lowndes' Influential Jack the Ripper Story". CrimeReads. Retrieved May 4, 2025.
  31. ^ Debruge, Peter (October 14, 2020). "'Rebecca' Review: Lily James and Armie Hammer Brighten Up a Brooding Classic in Netflix's Overtly Romantic Remake". Variety. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  32. ^ Kroll, Justin (13 January 2015). "Ben Affleck and David Fincher Reteam for 'Strangers on a Train' Reboot". Variety. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  33. ^ Ruimy, Jordan (19 August 2019). "David Fincher to Direct 'Strangers' for Netflix, Hitchcock Remake". World of Reel. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  34. ^ Ruimy, Jordan (19 August 2019). "Confirmed: David Fincher Attached to Direct 'Rope' Remake [Updated]". World of Reel. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
  35. ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (March 23, 2023). "Paramount Sets Remake of Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' as Potential Robert Downey Jr-Starrer; Steven Knight to Write Script & Davis Entertainment to Produce with Team Downey". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  36. ^ Felt, Klein (4 March 2025). "A Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo With Robert Downey Jr. Is Officially Happening". The Direct. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  37. ^ Hailu, Selome (8 February 2024). "'Rear Window,' 'The It Girl' and 'The Game' Head to Television via Kevin Williamson's Overall Deal With Universal". Variety. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
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