Production is underway on director Sacha Gervasi‘s Hitchcock (formerly titled Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho), and we now have our first look at Anthony Hopkins completely transformed as the legendary director. The resemblance is quite startling, and Hopkins looks to be under a good deal of (very well-done) makeup. It’s certainly a different look than Toby Jones is going for on the competing Hitchcock film The Girl, which focuses on the director’s obsessive relationship with his The Birds star Tippi Hedren. Hitchcock, meanwhile, is described as a love story between Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) which takes place during the troublesome production of the horror classic Psycho.
Hit the jump to get a look at Hopkins as Hitchcock. The stellar cast includes Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, Toni Collette, Danny Huston, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Kurtwood Smith.
Image via Fox Searchlight.
Here’s a synopsis for Hitchcock:
HITCHCOCK is a love story about one of the most influential filmmakers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock’s seminal movie PSYCHO.
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Poor Toby Jones….first Captoe now this
I think you mean Capote, and unfortunately Philip Seymour Hoffman was better. Toby make always look the part but he’s no Anthony Hopkins. Not bad himself though.
Yes, methinks Toby Jones is trying to build a poor career of playing the same roles as more popular actors in inferior movies. Patrick Bergin comes to mind.
I smell Oscar…
Well it certainly doesn’t smell like box office moolah if you ask me…and the extreme opposite of that is Oscar!
Yeah, 100% Oscar Bait
Toby Jones looks like a creep no matter who he is playing.
Looks pretty good as profile but Hitch had much chubbier cheeks, so the makeup won’t work without pudging up Hopkins’ cheeks a bit more.
Good evening. Tonight I will be cutting James Bond in half with a laser. Don’t go to pieces, but first we have these messages.
This project is officially on Oscar watch in many categories.
Toby Jones? No… the it should’ve been Timothy Spall. He looks just like Hitchcock!