"[It] would have been the s**t…" David Gordon Green lamented earlier this year about his long-brewing, but ultimately unmade remake of Dario Argento‘s horror classic "Suspiria." "I wrote it with my sound designer. I love Argento’s film and we wrote a very faithful, extremely elegant opera… I don’t mean musical opera, but it would be incredibly heightened music, and heightened and very operatic and elegant sets." However, he did let it slip the project wasn’t entirely dead. “I’m actually hopeful that it’s happening… with a great Italian director that I had breakfast with last week,” he teased. Well, now we know who that is.
Luca Guadagnino, who helmed "I Am Love" and just premiered "A Bigger Splash" in Venice (read our review), has revealed he’ll be helming the redo. "I’m going to direct a remake of Dario Argento’s ‘Suspiria.’ I’m going to shoot the movie this winter. I think my friends at StudioCanal will be part of it," he told Variety.
Originally, Guadagnino was going to produce Green’s picture, but now he’s getting right behind the camera. No word if he’ll use Green’s script or if he’s rewriting it for his own stylistic tendencies, but like Green, Guadagnino is an inspired choice. If this remake has to be done, perhaps better a filmmaker not traditionally known for making horror pictures take a stab at it over everyone playing it safe and going with someone who makes scares day in, day out. But the fact this is still happening at all will likely rankle many, so let us know what you think below.
@LEONARD Absolutely. Sign of either creative bankruptcy, or cowardly financiers.
Here\’s an idea. If you love a film so much, and if it\’s part of what inspired your work as a filmmaker, don\’t f*ckin\’ remake it. Make something new and original. Even an homage / love letter to the film that inspired you. Hell, work to get the original re-released so more people can see it. Anything but remake it, because claiming to love a film AND saying you want to make a better version of it, that\’s just obnoxious.
I don\’t think fans should get too upset if the rehash isn\’t as artistic as the original. The Mother of Tears; the third film in the trilogy came much later than the first two and although it possessed the gore, the sets were much darker and the music was quite different. I hope if they do remake it they will add some more history to the three mothers and their origin.
I… ugh. I honestly don\’t know what to say about this anymore. It\’s happening, it\’s not happening, it\’s happening, it\’s not… and it goes on like this. I love the original film (while acknowledging the flaws of it) and genuinely would like to see a modernized spin on it (one that wasn\’t half-assed and budgeted for crap) but at this point it\’s like having a carrot on a string dangled in front of you and yanked away repeatedly while some snide exec giggles over the fact that you\’ll never actually get it.
A remake isn\’t entirely necessary cosnidering the original film\’s legend. But that said … it does make me wonder why more giallos don\’t get remade. They have great twisting plots, sex, murder, beautiful women and kick ass style. Case of the Scorpion\’s Tail? How abou the Strange Case of Mrs. Wardh? they are dying to be remade, and not a lot of people in America have seen those films, so they\’d feel fresh. Suspiria\’s mroe about mood than story, so it\’s a more difficult task.