At the Devil’s Door Director Almost Remade French Film Livide
Steve Barton
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Though Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo’s 2014 film Livide (review) hasn’t yet been released here in the States, an American remake is nevertheless in some form of development.
Over the weekend The Pact director Nicholas McCarthy made the surprising revelation that he was recently attached to direct. In an interview with Complex about his latest film, At the Devil’s Door, now available through VOD outlets, the filmmaker opened up about his planned third feature, expressing that he’s a big time fan of Livide and was very excited about the possibility of being at the helm for the remake.
“It was never announced that I was attached to it, but I was sure that it was going to be my third feature,” revealed McCarthy. “That was the movie, though, where I realized that you can never be sure about anything.”
“I’m learning that all of those cliches are true. The remake had a couple of really good producers and it was written by a guy named David Burke, who’s the guy who wrote 17 Sins, which also premiered at SXSW this year. He’s a genius and kind of took Julien and Alexandre’s movie and made some kind of sense of it but didn’t homogenize it in any way. I guess one of the reasons why I was so excited about it was that I’ve always wanted to do a vampire movie, and this was one that had a really insane third act twist.”
So what went wrong? “We thought it was all set to go, but then, you know, everything fell through,” McCarthy noted. “I’d still love to do it, but now I’m not formally attached to it anymore, which just means that that piece of paper has expired.”
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard anything official about the Livide remake so there’s no way of knowing at the moment if another filmmaker has been brought on board or if the project is temporarily dead in the water.
How about we work on releasing the original film first and then worry about a remake?!
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