Many top-tier streamers — especially Netflix — have been stockpiling completed movies because their production pipelines have been affected by the pandemic. You can expect to see many more streaming deals like this one, as indie power players such as A24, Focus Features and Bleecker Street have pumped the brakes while they wait to see how the theatrical business shakes out as a vaccine (hopefully) draws near.
Six weeks after acquiring his upcoming romantic drama Malcom & Marie, Netflix has picked up the John David Washington thriller Born To Be Murdered for release in 2021. Washington and Oscar winner Alicia Vikander play a couple on vacation in Greece who fall prey to a violent conspiracy with tragic consequences. Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) and Boyd Holbrook (Logan) co-star in the film, which was shot on location in Greece last year. The movie’s got a vague synopsis but a great title that recalls that of Alfred Hitchcock suspense films. 
It’s too general a description to really be certain that Born to Be Murdered takes cues from Hitchcock, since Hitchcock is seeing renewed appreciation — both as a source of inspiration (see: Parasite, etc.) and in our ongoing rebootmania, with Netflix’s recent adaptation of Rebecca. Guadagnino is producing Born to Be Murdered.
