"Kristin Scott Thomas is ing the Netflix/Working Title remake of "Rebecca," and she'll be playing one of the most iconic villains in filmdom: Mrs. Danvers.

Lily James.

Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 film of the same name, which starred Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine, won a Best Picture Oscar. (The director's only film to win the honor.)

James will play a naive young woman who marries a rich widower and is intimidated by his housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, who constantly compares her to his late, legendary wife, Rebecca.

Judith Anderson,played the menacing Mrs. Danvers in the 1940 film, a performance that won her a Best ing Actress Oscar nomination.

Among Scott Thomas's recent roles: Ryan Gosling's criminal mother in  "Darkest Hour."

She received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for "The English Patient," and memorably costarred in "Gosford Park," "Angels and Insects."

[Via Collider]