Charlie Lyons - FishbowlLA http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla LA Media News, Unspooled Copyright 2013 Wed, 22 May 2013 17:28:40 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The Stage is Set for a Scintillating Hitchcock Adaptation Deadline’s Mike Fleming was one of the first this morning to the news that after many years of failed attempts, Broadway adaptation rights for Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window have finally been secured. The lucky winning bidders are director Jay Russell and producer Charlie Lyons, whose previous film collaborations include Ladder 49 and The Water Horse.

In recent years, there have been various pick-ups on the 1954 classic. Shia Labeouf fronted 2007′s Disturbia, which was later challenged in court by the estate controlling the rights to Rear Window (the plaintiffs lost). Meanwhile, in 2009, Jason Sudeikis and January Jones did a questionable SNL riff featuring a very flatulent Grace Kelly.

Casting is going to be key. The 1998 ABC-TV movie remake for example very cleverly chose Christopher Reeve to play the James Stewart character, opposite Darryl Hanah as his concerned girlfriend.

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]]> Richard Horgan http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/rear-window-broadway-rights-jay-russell-charlie-lyons_b74232#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/rear-window-broadway-rights-jay-russell-charlie-lyons_b74232 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/?p=74232 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:30:25 +0000