David Fincher and Ben Affleck Reunite for STRANGERS ON A TRAIN Remake

We wrote about David Fincher's Gone Girl just a little while ago when we published the Honest Trailer for that movie, but the film has popped up again for a different reason: Deadline reports that much of the creative team behind Gone Girl - Fincher, actor Ben Affleck, and writer Gillian Flynn - are reuniting for a remake of the Alfred Hitchcock film Strangers on a Train. Affleck will be able to fit this into his schedule between shooting and starring in Live By Night this spring and reprising his role as Batman in Zack Snyder's upcoming Justice League.

The original Strangers on a Train followed a tennis player who meets a wealthy guy on a train who proposes that they each kill someone the other would like dead - that way, the police would be confused when they searched for a motive. The setting will be moved from a train to a plane in this modernized remake, with Affleck playing a movie star in the middle of an Oscar campaign whose private plane breaks down. A wealthy stranger gives him a ride to Los Angeles on another plane, and that's when the dastardly deal is made.

This sounds like a great opportunity for this team to come together again, and after handling Flynn's paperback page-turner so well, the pulpy tension of Hitchcock should provide some more dark, twisted fun for the trio.