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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…
“Tell Me Lies” actor Sonia Mena is joining the recently announced Chase Yi on Paramount and Blumhouse’s new Paranormal Activity movie, Deadline reports this afternoon.
Ian Tuason (Undertone) will direct the eighth installment in the Paranormal Activity film franchise, set to release in theaters May 21, 2027.
Plot and character details remain tightly guarded at this stage, but the original Paranormal Activity, created by Oren Peli, first hit theaters in 2007. Its groundbreaking minimalist approach to found-footage ghost stories has spawned a seven-film franchise that’s grossed nearly $900 million worldwide.
It followed a couple terrorized by a strange presence shortly after moving into their suburban home.
While we wait for further news on plot or whether the demonic Toby will reappear, Tuason previously revealed to Bloody Disgusting that technology will play a huge role in his vision: “Technology — camera technology — has advanced to a point where it’s become a big part of the film and what I want to do there.”
That brings this project full circle for Tuason, as it was the original Paranormal Activity that inspired the filmmaker’s haunting debut, undertone.
Franchise originator Oren Peli will produce for Solana Films, with James Wan and Jason Blum producing for Blumhouse Atomic Monster. Michael Clear and Judson Scott will exec produce for Blumhouse Atomic, with Alayna Glasthal overseeing the project for the company. Other exec producers include Steven Schneider for Room 101, Inc., Dan Slater and Cody Calahan.
While we wait to learn more, a Paranormal Activity stage play arrives this summer.
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