Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to remake Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1958 classic psychological thriller Vertigo. What’s more, Robert Downey Jr is said to be eyeing the lead role. Incidentally, the actor is producing the film with wife Susan Downey through their Team Downey production company. Reportedly, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is set to write the script.

Downey Jr has kept a low profile as an actor since the release of 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, one of the highest-grossing movies ever made, and 2020’s Dolittle, which didn’t exactly do great numbers. He produced and appeared in the documentary Sr, about his father, and he will next be seen in Christopher Nolan’s historical epic Oppenheimer. Also starring opposite Cillian Murphy, the movie releases this July.