Affleck will direct and star in current adaptation of Witness for the Prosecution,approximately a man accused of murdering a wealthy older womanBen Affleck will direct and star in Witness for the Prosecution, a current adaptation of the Agatha Christie short story on which Billy Wilder’s six-time Oscar-nominated 1957 thriller was based.
Affleck will presumably play the central character, or a lawyer who is called to defend a man accused of the murder of a wealthy older woman,who bequeathed him her wealth without realising he was already married. In Wilder’s version, the lawyer was played by Charles Laughton, and while Tyrone Power was the defendant and Marlene Dietrich played the suspect’s wife. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com