Normally I don’t report on additional financing for a film, especially when it’s already happening, but an Oscar-winning financier just backed Amazon’s Suspiria remake.
Being that Amazon acquired Manchester by the Sea, which won multiple Oscars, it’s not all that surprising that the film’s financier would come aboard Suspiria.
Variety reports that K Period Media is co-financing the remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 Italian cult classic starring Dakota Johnson as a young ballerina who travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover, following a series of increasingly grisly murders, that it’s a front for something far more sinister and supernatural. Jessica Harper toplined the original movie and will cameo on the remake.
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Suspiria is directed by Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and also stars genre regulars Tilda Swinton, Chloe Moretz, and Mia Goth.
Frenesy Film Company, Mythology Entertainment, First Sun Films, and Memo Films are producing. Amazon Studios has acquired the worldwide distribution rights.