Director Noam Murro has signed on to direct Warner Bros. Pictures' new version of
Strangers on a Train, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
David Seltzer is writing the screenplay for the adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel, which was first made into a film in 1951 by Alfred Hitchcock.
The story inspired 1969's
Once You Kiss a Stranger and Danny DeVito's
Throw Momma From the Train in 1987. Robert Walker and Farley Granger starred in the original Hitchcock movie, with Granger playing a tennis pro who jokes about killing the father of a stranger he meets in return for the other man killing Granger's wife.