Suspiria Feature Film Remake Still a Possibility?
John Squires
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Director David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express) was at one point set to direct a big screen remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria, though last we heard the classic film was instead going to return to life on the small screen. Now, says Green, a feature film remake is still on the table. Read on!
In an interview with Crave Online on their B-Movies Podcast, Gordon Green revealed that the once-dead project is getting a second chance, though he indicated that he won’t be the one in the director’s chair.
“I’m actually hopeful that it’s happening,” Green told hosts William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold, “with a great Italian director that I had breakfast with last week.”
Gordon Green also spoke about his Suspiria remake that was announced back in 2008, and he still seems very bummed about the fact that his passion project never came to be.
“That would have been the shit,” Green says. “I wrote it with my sound designer. I love Argento’s film and we wrote a very faithful, extremely elegant opera, basically of [Suspiria]. I don’t mean musical opera, but it would be incredibly heightened music, and heightened and very operatic and elegant sets. Isabelle Huppert was going to be in it [and] Janet McTeer. We had an amazing cast of elegance and prestige that we were engineering for it.”
“But, at the heart of it,” Green continues, “I wanted it to be a horror film. And a horror movie, at the time when we were modeling that movie, meant you’re making Saw and Paranormal [Activity]. You were making these down and dirty, very gory, very economical movies. So the economic model for a horror movie was not where I wanted it to be to make a $20 million elegant movie from a guy who was an unproven horror director, you know?”
The director went on to say that the box office failure of Your Highness was the final nail in the Suspiria remake coffin – that iteration of the project, at least.
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