Lily James and Armie Hammer to star in Netflix's Rebecca remake directed by Ben Wheatley

There is no word yet on who will play the famous part of Mrs Danvers

Lily James and Armie Hammer are set to star in a new adaptation of 'Rebecca' (Getty)

A new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's gothic classic Rebecca is set to hit screens.

Lily James and Armie Hammer will star in the Netflix production, according to Variety, with High-Rise's Ben Wheatley in the director's chair.

Kingsman: The Secret Service's Jane Goldman will adapt the book, which follows a newly married young woman who arrives to her new home, the imposing Manderley estate, only to find herself living underneath the shadow of her husband's former wife, Rebecca, who died in a boating accident a year earlier.

The novel is particularly famous for the sinister character of Mrs Danvers, the housekeeper, who has an unhealthy obsession with Rebecca. There is no word on who will play her in the new adaptation.

Although there have been many adaptations of the book in the past, the most famous is Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), which starred Sir Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, and Dame Judith Anderson.

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