Written by Kathy Carpenter Dailymail.Com
00:57 January 23, 2024, updated 00:59 January 23, 2024
On Monday, Netflix released the first teaser for Ripley, a limited psychological thriller series starring Emmy nominee Andrew Scott as the titular con artist, which premieres on April 4.
Oscar-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian (“Schindler’s List”) wrote and directed all eight episodes of the mini-film version of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 crime novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”
The 47-year-old Irishman is too old to play an ambitious young con man who is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to persuade his wanderer’s son to return home.
So they aged all the characters, including 40-year-old Johnny Flynn as spoiled playboy Dickie Greenleaf and 29-year-old Dakota Fanning as suspicious girlfriend Marge Sherwood. .
Rather than the bronzed, colorful cinematography of Anthony Minghella’s acclaimed 1999 film starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jude Law, Zaillian chose an all-white film for Ripley. I chose a black and white film noir style.
The Ripley teaser shows the eerie image of a man standing on a motorboat in the middle of the ocean.
It foreshadows the climactic showdown between Tom Ripley and Dickie Greenleaf aboard a small motorboat, which ends in disaster.
“You are a very difficult man to find,” a detective tells Tom in the trailer.
“No address. Phone, office.”
Ripley’s ensemble also stars Elliot Sumner, Maurizio Lombardi, Margherita Bui, and John Malkovich, who we heard say, “I love that name.”
The 70-year-old Emmy Award winner is best known for playing Tom Ripley in Liliana Cavani’s 2002 thriller Ripley’s Game, based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1974 novel.
“It was a tough role to play. I thought it was really tough, mentally and physically, and that’s just the truth,” Andrew, who also served as an executive producer on Ripley, told Vanity last month.・Acknowledged at “Fair”.
“I feel like I’m required to love and defend my character, and your job is to think, ‘Why? What is it?’ You don’t play up the opinions or previous attitudes people might have about Tom Ripley. We have to throw them all away and stop listening to those opinions and go, “Okay, I have to have the courage to create my own version and my own understanding of the character.” It doesn’t have to be.
Ripley comes five months after Emerald Fennell released her so-called “original” film Saltburn. The film borrowed much of its tone, character dynamics, and plot from The Talented Mr. Ripley.