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Towne to retrace Hitch’s ’39 Steps’

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From Associated Press

Screenwriter Robert Towne has struck a deal to develop a remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic “The 39 Steps.”

The Hollywood veteran, who won an Oscar for 1974’s “Chinatown” and was nominated for “The Last Detail,” “Shampoo” and “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes,” will write and direct the thriller for Carlton International Media, Daily Variety reported.

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