MUMBAI: Veteran Anthony Hopkins has been roped in to play legendary director Alfred Hitchcock in a new biopic titled Alfred Hitchcock & the Making of Psycho.

The film will chronicle Hitchcock‘s experiences while filming the thriller Psycho that became an instant classic when it was released in 1960 and many film fans claim it is the director‘s greatest work.

On the other hand, it is being said that Dame Helen Mirren is in talks to play Hitchcock‘s wife, Alma Reville.

The film, based on Stephen Rebello‘s book of the same name, would be directed by Sasha Gervasi.