MTV reports that Anthony Hopkins is getting ready to play Alfred Hitchcock in a film about the making of Psycho. IMDbPro has scant additional details: the film is in the script phase, and it will eventually be directed by Ryan Murphy, a TV writer who directed last year’s Running With Scissors. Helen Mirren will co-star as Hitch’s wife Alma.

This makes two slice-of-Hitchcock’s-life projects in the works, after Number Thirteen, which stars Dan Fogler as the young Hitchcock, and which I wrote about here. Psycho was shot on the Universal backlot, so hopefully the Hopkins film will at least touch on Hitch’s decadent steak-and-wine lunch ritual at the Universal commissary.

Semi-related: Jim Emerson’s entry on the Psycho shower scene for The House Next Door’s Close-Up Blogathon.