"Vertigo" received poor reviews upon its release, but since then it has routinely been cited as one of the greatest movies ever made. It topped Sight & Sound's list of the 50 greatest films and is currently ranked 9th on the American Film Institute's 100 greatest American films of all time. I consider myself lucky to have seen "Vertigo" twice now in theaters. I was looking around my archives, but couldn't find any essay i had written on Hitchcock's movie, which I consider to be the greatest movie of all-time. I will write something when I return from Cannes.
His reasoning is simple: Cregger sees himself first and foremost as a writer, and he has little interest in shaping stories around the predetermined “data points” that come with established IP.