“We All Have a Dark Side”

Yeah, I’d pay good money to see this. From Mashable:

Helen Mirren stars as legendary novelist Patricia Highsmith in A Talent for Murder, and we’re dangerously seduced by the trailer ... Directed by Anton Corbijn and written by Joanna Murray-Smith, the film sees Alden Ehrenreich (Weapons, Solo) as Edward Ridgeway, a man sent by his New York publisher to Switzerland to convince the Talented Mr. Ripley author to pen one last masterpiece in her all-important Ripley series. The thing is, someone from the publisher has already been sent on the mission and nobody’s heard from him since. And there are an awful lot of guns and knives around Highsmith's home ...

But Highsmith intends to give Ridgeway one night to show her he can “inhabit the mind of a killer,” before she puts anything down in print. And so, the pair play Highsmith-style crime writing 101. First up? They’ll need to find their mark, a dazzling female lead with a dazzling female name—Clementine Harriet Balfour (House of the Dragon’s Olivia Cooke)—who’s “destined for money” from her great aunt.

But the longer Ridgeway plays the Ripley game with Highsmith, the darkness of her literature threatens to get very real.

A Talent for Murder is set to debut in U.S. theaters on Friday, October 23. Mashable has the trailer here.