Scarlett Johansson To Play Janet Leigh In Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho

Scarlet Johansson is spending her summer kicking butt with The Avengers but pretty soon she’ll be practicing how to get murdered. The actress has been cast as Janet Leigh in the film, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. 

A mouthful of a title but I’m very excited for the prospect of this film as I’m a big Hitchcock fan. Fox Searchlight is producing the making-of which will be based on the famous thriller director and revolve around his most famous film. Johansson is the latest addition to the cast.

Playing Hitchcock? Anthony Hopkins. For his wife, Alma? Helen Mirren. Goodness, could we ask for more? Of course in a story about Psycho, we’re leaving out one other very important person. Playing the lead actor of the film, Anthony Perkins, is  James D’Arcy from the BBC’s Secret Diary of a Call Girl and the film Master and Commander. He couldn’t be more perfect to play Perkins playing Norman Bates.

/Film says Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho will be similar in style to My Week With Marilyn, “meaning Searchlight is hoping the film does for Johansson what that film did for star Michelle Williams. Based on a book of the same name by Stephen Rebello, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho will be directed by Sacha Gervasi (Anvil: The Story of Anvil) and is co-written by John McLaughlin and Tom Thayer.”

What do you think of the casting choices?

(via /Film)

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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