Andrew Scott gets his Saltburn on in new Ripley trailer
Scott takes on the role previously played by Matt Damon in a new, black-and-white adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels from Netflix
Andrew Scott is reinforcing one of cinema’s oldest truisms in his new Netflix series, Ripley: never trust anyone when they say they’re an accountant. The All Of Us Strangers star is returning to his Sherlock-era criminal mastermind roots as Tom Ripley, a grifter who descends into a life of fraud, deception, and murder after he’s hired by a wealthy man to return his debaucherous son home from Italy.
If this setup sounds familiar, there’s a pretty good reason for that. Ripley is yet another adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s popular Tom Ripley novels, which also inspired 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, starring Matt Damon. And, if you haven’t seen that film and still feel a little bit of déjà vu, Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn employs a similar conceit in its tale of a lower-class obsessive slowly worming his way into the lives and milieu of a wealthy family. The new, black-and-white, 1960s-set series seems far too classy for a “Murder On The Dancefloor”-esque victory scene, but there is a shot of Scott near a bathtub, so… anything is possible.