Hitchcocks Lodger Remake

David Ondaatje is remaking the Alfred Hitchcock 1927 classic The Lodger. In a short nutshell the film is about a killer that stalks london just like Jack The Ripper did and killed young blonde women. His name is 'The Avenger'. The original movie directed by Hitchcock was based on a Marie Belloc Lowndes 1912 novel. David told IonCinema;

Lowndes’s novel tells the true story of a woman the author met at a dinner party who claimed Jack the Ripper was staying at her boarding house. Intrigued by the idea, Ondaatje has taken this premise and set it in modern day Los Angeles. Pulling his inspiration from Hitchcock’s adaptation and the dark visual style of fellow directors David Fincher and Darren Aronofsky, Ondaatje has fleshed out the characters, given them lines to say (Hitchcock’s The Lodger is silent) and room to grow.

The result? “A beautifully romantic tension between characters,” says the director. I spoke with Mr. Ondaatje after his first week of production and despite his raspy voice (the product of an all night shoot), he sounds excited and surprisingly calm about directing his first feature.

The director recently sat down to talk to Eric from IonCinema. Go read the interview