When is Rebecca released on Netflix and is there a trailer?

REBECCA is being brought to life once more by Netflix, and fans of the book can’t wait to watch the 2020 film. The classic tale has been told many times over the years both on the stage on screen – here’s when it drops on Netflix. When is Rebecca released on Netflix and is there […]

REBECCA is being brought to life once more by Netflix, and fans of the book can’t wait to watch the 2020 film.

The classic tale has been told many times over the years both on the stage on screen – here’s when it drops on Netflix.

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When is Rebecca released on Netflix and is there a trailer?

Fans have been patiently waiting for Rebecca to arrive on Netflix, and while there’s still a little way to go, the release date creeps ever closer.

Rebecca will be dropping on October 21, 2020.

It will be on the site from 8am that day.

The trailer has now been released, and you can watch at the top of this article.

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What is Rebecca about?

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.

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Who is in the cast of Rebecca?

A drama of this high calibre of course brings with it a star cast.

This includes:

• Lily James as Mrs. de Winter
• Armie Hammer as Maxim de Winter
• Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs. Danvers
• Tom Goodman-Hill as Frank Crawley
• Keeley Hawes as Beatrice Lacy
• Sam Riley as Jack Favell
• Ann Dowd as Mrs. Van Hopper
• Mark Lewis Jones as Inspector Welch
• Jane Lapotaire as The Grandmother
• Ashleigh Reynolds as Robert

Is Netflix’s Rebecca based on a book?

The series is based on Daphne du Maurier’s beloved 1938 gothic novel of the same name.

Rebecca sold 2.8 million copies between its publication in 1938 and 1965.

It has been adapted numerous times for stage and screen, including a 1939 play by Daphne herself, and the film, Rebecca (1940), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.