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PSA: Lily James and Armie Hammer's Netflix film Rebecca drops today

Photo credit: Kerry Brown / Netflix
Photo credit: Kerry Brown / Netflix

From Cosmopolitan

If you're running out of things to watch on Netflix, you'll be happy to hear Rebecca, starring Lily James and Armie Hammer, finally lands on the streaming platform today. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the Ben Wheatley adaptation also features a host of other huge names, including Kristin Scott Thomas and Keeley Hawes. Netflix describes the movie as a "mesmerising and gorgeously rendered psychological thriller". Sounds good, right? Here's what else we know about Rebecca:

What's Rebecca about?

Based on the 1938 gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier, newlywed [Lily James] arrives at her husband’s [Armie Hammer] sprawling family estate and finds herself being haunted by Rebecca, his first wife. The official synopsis reads:

After a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with handsome widower Maxim de Winter ( Hammer), a newly married young woman (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 (Scott Thomas).

Photo credit: Kerry Brown / Netflix
Photo credit: Kerry Brown / Netflix
Photo credit: Kerry Brown / Netflix
Photo credit: Kerry Brown / Netflix

Who stars in Rebecca?

As well as Lily and Armie in the lead roles, the cast features the likes of Four Weddings and a Funeral's Kristin Scott Thomas, Bodyguard's Keeley Hawes, Handmaid's Tale actor Ann Dowd, Maleficent's Sam Riley and Humans star Tom Goodman-Hill. Mark Lewis Jones, John Hollingworth and Bill Paterson round out the cast.

Photo credit: Kerry Brown / Netflix
Photo credit: Kerry Brown / Netflix
Photo credit: Kerry Brown / Netflix
Photo credit: Kerry Brown / Netflix

When is Rebecca being released?

Rebecca is out today [October 21]. Yes, we've already seen Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier book, but we're definitely ready for this modern day revamp.

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