Could you design a clas­sic Rebec­ca film poster?

Daphne du Maurier’s sto­ries have been delight­ing audi­ences for the best part of a cen­tu­ry, spawn­ing more than a dozen film adap­ta­tions and tens of tele­vi­sion drama­ti­sa­tions. One more to add to the cat­a­logue: Ben Wheatley’s Rebec­ca, a sun-dap­pled psy­cho­log­i­cal thriller based on the author’s famed 1938 nov­el of the same name.

Star­ring Armie Ham­mer as dash­ing wid­ow­er Max­im de Win­ter and Lily James as his unnamed suit­or, who becomes haunt­ed by the mem­o­ry of her new husband’s late first wife, this bold retelling promis­es to bring du Maurier’s time­less goth­ic romance to a new audi­ence. To cel­e­brate the release of Rebec­ca on Net­flix on 21 Octo­ber, we’re set­ting a new cre­ative brief inspired by the film and the source material.

For this brief, we’d like you to cre­ate an alter­nate poster for Rebec­ca. Your design should be illus­trat­ed, and must include the film’s title and at least one of the main stars, Armie Ham­mer and Lily James. It must be for­mat­ted in A1 por­trait size.

We’re look­ing for some­thing bold, com­plete­ly orig­i­nal and clas­si­cal­ly styled, whether you choose to take inspi­ra­tion from the 1930s, when Wheatley’s film is set and when du Maurier’s nov­el was first pub­lished, or a lat­er period.

Here’s the offi­cial poster to get your cre­ative juices flowing…

The over­all win­ner, as cho­sen by our in-house team, will receive a first edi­tion copy of ​‘Rebec­ca’ with a post­card signed by Daphne du Mau­ri­er. We’ll also throw in a copy of our mag­a­zine plus a signed print of Netflix’s alter­nate Rebec­ca poster, which will be revealed soon.

The win­ning entry plus two run­ners up will be print­ed and dis­played at sites around Lon­don, along­side the main offi­cial poster, with full cred­it to the entrant.

All entries must be sent to competitions@​tcolondon.​com under the sub­ject line ​‘Rebec­ca cre­ative brief’ by mid­day GMT on Mon­day 28 Sep­tem­ber.

You can also send us your entry via Twit­ter or Insta­gram by tag­ging @LWLies, but be sure to email us a hi-res ver­sion of your entry as well. Please remem­ber to include your full name so we know who to cred­it. Good luck!

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