New Stills from Hitchcock Show Off the Supporting Players

Steve Barton |

Nov 7, 2012

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A new batch of photos has arrived that shows off Hitchcock‘s version of the cast members from Psycho–Jessica Biel as Vera Miles, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh, and James D’Arcy as Anthony Perkins–as well as a few others.

Also included in the shots below are Michael Stuhlbarg as talent agent and studio executive Lew Wasserman and Toni Collette as Hitchcock’s assistant Peggy Robertson.

The film, which is billed as “a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock, and his wife and partner, Alma Reville,” takes place during the making of Hitchcock’s seminal movie Psycho. Anthony Hopkins plays Hitchcock, and Helen Mirren stars as his wife. Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston, Toni Collette, Jessica Biel, Michael Stuhlbarg, James D’Arcy, Michael Wincott, Richard Portnow, and Kurtwood Smith also star.

The project is based on the non-fiction book by Stephen Rebello that tracks how Hitchcock, at the height of his game as a director, decided to make a “lowly” horror movie. No studio wanted to touch it initially so Hitchcock scrounged for financing by himself. The movie, of course, became one of his biggest hits and one of the most influential of all time.

Claudia Lewis, President of Production, and David Greenbaum, Senior Vice President of Production, are overseeing the project for Fox Searchlight Pictures, which opens in select theaters starting November 23rd.