According to Deadline London Slingshot Productions and BBC Films are co-developing a teen thriller partly inspired by Hitchcock’s film tentatively titled Teens on a Train. Yes, you read that right. Teens on a Train.
Joshua St. Johnston, creator of BBC fashion drama “Material Girl,” is the writer. The project takes Patricia Highsmith’s novel, filmed by Hitchcock, as its inception: Two strangers meet on a train and agree to murder the person who’s making the other person’s life a misery. In Slingshot’s version boy meets girl, girl turns out to be raving psychopath… The idea developed out of a teen Hitchcock scriptwriting competition that Slingshot ran in 2007, and Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise is apparently another influence.
Slingshot’s hoping to shoot in 2011 so look for more soon.