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‘Suspiria’ Remake Has a New Director…
Back in June David Gordon Green revealed that he was looking at an unnamed Italian filmmaker to take the reigns on the long-gestured remake of Dario Argento’s Susipria.
Empire unknowingly discovered this news when they interviewed Luca Guadagnino about his crime drama, A Bigger Splash, out of the Venice Film Festival.
While Argento continues to develop of series based on his movie, Guadagnino will hope to get behind the camera on the remake to Argento’s 1977 classic that took place in a fancy ballet academy that’s a front for something far more sinister.
“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 tells Empire. “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.”
Guadagnino’s version, he says, will be very different. “The movie by Dario Argento was maybe a child of its own times. It’s very delicate; almost childish,” he added. “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 recognize the debt of guilt that forged the new Germany after the war against the fathers who wanted to deny the responsibility.”
Isabelle Huppert and Isabelle Fuhrman are no longer attached, and the film is still in the development process. Will the Suspira remake ever get made? It feels inevitable at this point…
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Christopher Landon to Helm Feature Adaptation of Grady Hendrix’s ‘The Final Girl Support Group’
A new feature adaptation of author Grady Hendrix‘s slasher book The Final Girl Support Group is now on the way from Paramount Pictures, and Deadline reports that it’s found its director in Christopher Landon (Drop, Happy Death Day).
The two previously collaborated on My Best Friend’s Exorcism.
In The Final Girl Support Group, “Lynette is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized—someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.”
“But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.”
I wrote in my novel review for BD, “Hendrix puts his characters through the absolute wringer. It’s a bloody, vicious voyage for the flawed heroine, both physically and emotionally. In terms of action and horror, Support Group delivers breakneck pacing and thrills.”
Five years ago, Andy Muschietti & Barbara Muschietti (Mama, It, It Chapter Two) were attached to produce a planned series adaptation for HBO Max alongside Charlize Theron. While Theron is no longer producing, the Muschiettis remain on board under their Double Dream label.
Paramount Pictures is also developing Hendrix’s sci-fi novella, BadAsstronauts.
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