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Suspiria
 Tags: ballet, Dario Argento, David Gordon Green, MISC, REMAKES, school, Suspiria, witches |
The original was about a young woman who attends a ballet school only to discover that it's actually a coven for witches.
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PROJECT DETAILS
- Filming was originally aimed to begin in 2010 then sometime in early 2011.
- David Gordon Green offered more insight on how the success of Black Swan may or may not have helped move this project along, saying: "..there’s an audience for prestige in genre, and to me, that’s exciting. We’re really close to getting that movie made if I can get over a couple more budgetary hurdles I think I can pull it off. My version doesn’t really have any similarities to Black Swan, but it proves to the marketplace that you can take a great risk and you can have something that has great artistic ambition, but also has incredible commercial appeal." (12/8/11)
- David Gordon Green was interviewed recently, where he revealed how the success of Black Swan caused him to rethink a couple things for this project, saying: "[Black Swan] did inspire me to think, 'Well, I want to go younger now. I want this to be about 14-, 15-year-old girls, rather than women who are Natalie's age.' It made me not want to do what 'Black Swan' kind of did with the psychology and thriller elements of older characters. If anything, I want to focus on the younger, more naïve kinds of characters—the wide-eyed, 'Snow White' version of the movie, rather than a more sophisticated, sexual version of it."
- Writer/director David Gordon Green was quoted saying: "[Our Suspiria] doesn’t follow the trend of the traditional horror movies of late, so it’s a leap of faith, financially. I’m gonna put my spin on it, but in terms of a pitch, it’s going to remain quite faithful to [the original]. I want an unknown cast. My version isn’t necessarily about ballet, it’s more of an all-girls boarding school."
- Green also apparently got the rights to the original score by Goblin, and revealed what he intends to do with it for the remake: "We got the rights to the Goblin score, so we're going to use that. Steve Jablonsky, who did the score for Your Highness, is incredible. So I would love to see what he would do with the Goblin music. We could start in a very faithful, synthesizer kind of world of music that Goblin does in the original film, and by the end of it turn that score into a huge opera, which would be incredible."
- Dario Argento has reportedly given his blessing and released the rights to the original, detailing that no remake will "overshadow" his "masterpiece".
- Actress Natalie Portman was once interested in playing the lead, but she decided to do Black Swan instead.
- This will be an English-language film.
- Produced by Italian-based company First Sun.
- Luca Guadagnino was also attached to direct at one point.
- Mimi Leder was first set to direct when Dimension was still involved.
- Dimension Films was originally interested in this project when it was first announced.
- The original was the first film in the dubbed "Three Mothers" trilogy, with the last film finally being made in 2007.
- A remake of the 1977 cult film by Italian director Dario Argento.
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Dates are tentative and subject to change.
- Tue, February 14, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, February 14, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, February 14, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, February 17, 2012
- Tue, February 21, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, February 28, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, February 28, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, March 2, 2012 (VOD)
- Tue, March 6, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, March 9, 2012
- Sat, March 17, 2012 (SyFy)
- Tue, March 20, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, March 30, 2012
- Tue, April 3, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, April 6, 2012 (Limited)
- Tue, April 10, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, April 13, 2012 (Chiller)
- Fri, April 13, 2012
- Tue, April 17, 2012
- Tue, April 17, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, April 17, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, April 20, 2012 (Limited)
- Fri, April 20, 2012
- Tue, April 24, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, April 24, 2012
- Fri, April 27, 2012
- Fri, April 27, 2012
- Fri, May 4, 2012 (VOD)
- Fri, May 11, 2012
- Fri, June 8, 2012
- Tue, June 12, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, June 22, 2012
- Fri, August 17, 2012
- Fri, August 24, 2012
- Fri, August 24, 2012
- Fri, August 31, 2012
- Fri, August 31, 2012
- Fri, September 14, 2012
- Fri, September 21, 2012
- Fri, October 5, 2012
- Fri, October 19, 2012
- Fri, October 26, 2012
- Fri, December 21, 2012
- Fri, January 11, 2013
- Fri, February 1, 2013
- Fri, February 15, 2013
- Fri, February 22, 2013
- Fri, April 12, 2013
- Fri, May 10, 2013
- Fri, June 28, 2013
There are certain films that just shouldn't be touched and Suspiria is one of them. The main thing that made it great was Argento's visual style, you take that away and you've just got another pointless remake that doesn't make any sense to boot.
Wait I'm confused originally I thought that Asia was attached to this project.
Dario Argento has reportedly given his blessing and released the rights to the original, detailing that no remake will "overshadow" his "masterpiece".
I love that comment. Props to you Mr. Argento.
Haha, WOW I love this man.
This is absolutely ridiculous. Above all else ths is the one movie I did not want to see remade. But I will feel obligated to see it and then hate myself afterwards for having seen it.
Considering the guy making it is responsible for "pineapple express" I will have to agree with you.
David Gordon Green directing Susperia... I just can't see this working... To his credit, Pineapple Express was funny as hell... But this is susperia!.. I got a bad feeling about this one.
Suspiria is absolutely my favourite film. While I am interested in seeing how a remake would be handled, I don't want to see David Gordon Green direct. The score and the visual style of the original film is what made Suspiria so terrifying. I can already see that gone out the window now. Natalie Portman would've been a decent Suzy Banyon, too. Hopefully it won't be a complete shitfest.
"The score and the visual style of the original film is what made Suspiria so terrifying."
True.
We can only hope.