![It’s not Janet Leigh: it’s Anne Heche dying in full color in Gus Van Sant’s version of ‘Psycho’ from 1998.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/WHQIU7FY3RD4NFVRJLROZJYOWM.jpg?auth=4d3b3e3fd392b7aab90860c364fb9466e2ae4412af825343806e32191c14139b&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
A useless $100-million copy: When they dared to remake ‘Psycho’
When some executives asked Gus Van Sant 25 years ago what he wanted to do for his next film, he replied that he wanted to duplicate, frame by frame, a universally known masterpiece, and they said: okay