EFM 2017: Suspiria Remake Wrapped and Headed to Berlin
Steve Barton
|
Sometimes you just want to pretend what’s happening out there really isn’t happening at all, but at the end of the day there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s how lots of fans feel about the remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria, but like it or not, it’s well on its way.
We remain guardedly optimistic… I mean, an “Exorcist” TV show ended up being good so anything can happen.
Deadline reports that Amazon Studios’ Suspiria remake from Italian helmer Luca Guadagnino is heading to the European Film Market next week in Berlin with FilmNation aboard the project for international sales.
The remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 Italian horror classic has been a passion project for Guadagnino for some time. It stars Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Mia Goth and is based on a young American ballet dancer who travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is something far more sinister and supernatural. She becomes increasingly terrified after a series of gruesome murders ensue and she slowly unravels the dark history of the academy.
Suspiria is written by David Kajganich, who adapts the remake from Argento and Daria Nicolodi’s original script.
Frenesy Film Company, Mythology Entertainment, First Sun Films and Memo Films produce. Guadagnino, Brad Fischer, Kajganich, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Marco Morabito, Gabriele Moratti, William Sherak, and Silvia Venturini Fendi are producers on the title while James Vanderbilt, Paul Deason, Massimiliano Violante, and Carlo Antonelli exec produce.
Amazon Studios picked up the project last year for worldwide distribution rights and is financing production.
Argento’s original, which was laden with the supernatural, witches, and a lot of blood, marked the beginning of the director’s “Three Mothers” trilogy, which was followed by Inferno (1980) and The Mother of Tears (2007).
Categorized:News
