Netflix’s REBECCA Remake Snags 54% on Rotten Tomatoes
Netflix and Kill List director Ben Wheatley’s new adaptation of The Birds author Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca arrives on the streaming service this Friday. And today we learned the remake’s Rotten Tomatoes score has been revealed.
The film sports a 54% on Rotten Tomatoes with a Critics Consensus that reads: Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca remake is ravishing to behold, but it never quite gets to the heart of the classic source material — or truly justifies its own existence.
Ouch. But it’s kinda what I figured.
Previously adapted by Alfred Hitchcock with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, Daphne du Maurier‘s Gothic romance follows a young woman (Lily James) who struggles to make a fresh start with her new husband (Armie Hammer) as the ghost of his first wife looms large metaphorically — and quite possibly literally, too.
The romantic thriller is directed by Wheatley from a screenplay by Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel, and Anna Waterhouse based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It co-stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Goodman-Hill, Keeley Hawes, Sam Riley, and Ann Dowd. Rebecca haunts Netflix on October 21st.
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