“I don’t trust him. He’s a liar. It’s his profession,” Dakota Fanning’s Marge Sherwood warns within the new trailer for Netflix’s Ripley, a restricted sequence starring Andrew Scott because the globe-trotting con artist Tom Ripley.
Written and directed by Oscar winner Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List, The Irishman), the newest adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s traditional novel sees Ripley, accountant by day, morph right into a murderous scammer. Emma’s Johnny Flynn is Dickie Greenleaf—the vagabond inheritor to a rich Manhattan fortune with whom Ripley turns into enamored—and Fanning is his girlfriend, Marge, the primary individual to change into suspicious of Ripley’s persistent presence of their lives.
As she places it plainly within the trailer: “He came to Italy, moved into Dickie’s house—he just wouldn’t go away. Tom is one of those people who takes advantage of people. He’s taking advantage of Dickie.” In a preview aptly set to “The Great Pretender,” Ripley is proven worming his approach into Dickie’s prosperous way of life, even mimicking the person whose life he’d like to steer.
“You get taken into this character in such a profound way. The process of being Tom Ripley, the audience gets to be a part of all of it, every little step,” Fanning informed Vanity Fair in regards to the upcoming venture, which is introduced solely in black and white. “Nothing is brushed over or assumed. We get to see exactly how this character does what he does, and that’s super fascinating.”
The character examine strategy to this narrative, which beforehand impressed the 1999 movie starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jude Law, in addition to Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, is what units it aside. “I think it’s a very new, very exciting version of it,” Scott informed VF. “It’s incredibly gripping, and I hope we understand him in a new way.” The bingeable sequence construction additionally pays homage to the true-crime side of Highsmith’s story. “I don’t think we’ve ever seen it in this episodic form, and I think it really lends itself to the [notion] of, Okay, I’ve got to watch more of this story unfold,” the actor continues. “I hope I don’t let people down.”
All eight episodes of Ripley stream on April 4.