Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson Join Remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria
John Squires
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The latest director to be attached to a remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria is Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash), who replaced David Gordon Green last year. The project has been on again, off again more times than we can count, but it seems it’s on again. And today brings casting news.
As posted over on Twitter by critic Alex Heller-Nicholas, Guadagnino took part in a Q&A session earlier this week in Australia, and naturally, he was asked about Suspiria. In addition to confirming that the remake will be set in Berlin in 1977, he revealed that both Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton have joined the cast.
Guadagnino also noted that he’s hoping to have John Adams score the film, which he describes as his most “Fassbinderian” to date.
“The film by Dario Argento was a very indicative moment of growing up for me because I saw it when I was 14,” the director recently said of the remake. “I think it changed me forever. I was obsessed [with Argento] through all my adolescence. [My version] is going to be set in Berlin in 1977. It’s going to be about the mother and the concept of motherhood and about the uncompromising force of motherhood. It’s going to be about finding your inner voice – the title is very evocative on these grounds.”
“The movie by Dario Argento was maybe a child of its own times. It’s very delicate, almost childish,” he continued. “I have a very strong interest in German literature and film, so I think [my] Suspiria will have to focus very strongly on that moment in history, in 1977, when Germany was divided and a new generation was claiming and asking to recognise the debt of guilt that forged the new Germany after the war against the fathers who wanted to deny the responsibility.”
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