When a studio announces plans to remake a beloved Hollywood classic, it’s tempting to guess what they’re going to do with it. In the case of “Rebecca,” a 1940 Alfred Hitchcock drama starring Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier, the remake wasn’t produced by a conventional studio but by Netflix, the streaming giant that sometimes threatens to replace Hollywood. Still, anyone who knows the Hitchcock film might have made the same guesses that I did when I first heard the news. And we would have been right in the obvious ways, but hard put to imagine how unlovable the Netflix version would be, and how it would handle, or,...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 22, 2020 20:37 UTC