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A DIRECTOR PUSHING THE ENVELOPE

en Wheatley has stepped outside his comfort zone before, but never to this extent. His adaptation of the classic Daphne du Maurier novel, about a youngor . Wheatley will also be haunted by a ghost of his own — that of Alfred Hitchcock, whose 1940 version won the Best Picture Oscar. Eighty years on, though, expect this to be a very modern, and very Wheatley, take on the material.

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