It’s ‘Double Exposure’ In New Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca Posters
Later this month Netflix will release Ben Wheatley‘s passion project Rebecca. Based on the classic 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel of the same name starring Lily James and Armie Hammer as well as Kristin Scott Thomas.
Today the streaming channel revealed 4 New Posters for the film designed by Julian House (In Fabric, Berberian Sound Studio). Ben Wheatley remarks that “working with Julian House is always a great pleasure. He lives and breathes design. I’ve admired him for years. His work with primal scream was a big influence on me. Recently I’ve really enjoyed his ghost box designs and his work with Peter Strickland.”
Julian House used an old school optical photographic technique to create the underwater typography of the opening and closing titles “Being able to also produce a poster which has a synergy with the title sequence is ideal, to have a visual language that reaches across several aspects of a film campaign. The poster shares the same typography and has a fractured dream quality that reflects the story. We produced multiple options using different surreal graphic devices.. fractured mirrors, double exposures, disorientating changes in scale and location.
The main thing they all share is a relationship between the three main characters. The romantic image of Mr and Mrs de Winter is thrown off balance by the shadowy presence of Mrs Danvers. Collage and montage allow you to hint at the psychological undercurrents of a story.”
Related: In Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca Trailer All Marriages Have Secrets
After a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with handsome widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer), a newly married young woman (Lily James) arrives at Manderley, her new husband’s imposing family estate on a windswept English coast. Naive and inexperienced, she begins to settle into the trappings of her new life, but finds herself battling the shadow of Maxim’s first wife, the elegant and urbane Rebecca, whose haunting legacy is kept alive by Manderley’s sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas). Directed by Ben Wheatley (High Rise, Free Fire) and produced by Working Title Films (Emma, Darkest Hour), REBECCA is a mesmerising and gorgeously rendered psychological thriller based on Daphne du Maurier’s beloved 1938 gothic novel.
The cast also includes Keeley Hawes, Ann Dowd, Sam Riley, Tom Goodman-Hill, Mark Lewis Jones, John Hollingworth, and Bill Paterson.
Rebecca will launch globally on Netflix on October 21st.
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