The closest David Gordon Green has ever come to the horror genre is having Josh Lucas embody some demon-like qualities in Undertow. I’ve had the chance to talk to DGG and I get the impression that this guy doesn’t chew up time: attacking one screenplay after another (look for that interview next week). I’m not sure if Dimension Films still own the remake rights to Suspiria, but via MTV comes the curious news that he intends to possibly direct a horror classic from maestro Dario Argento. See the conversation below.
Also in other news (trivia this time): Indiewire found out that David Gordon Green got the directing bug from being an extra on an Oliver Stone set (to find out which film that was click here).
“It’s an indisputable horror classic, and one of the scariest gosh darn movies
you’ll ever see. So, naturally, when the decision came to remake Dario Argento’s
iconic “Suspiria,” they went to the guy best known for Southern coming-of-age
stories?
“No, it doesn’t make a lick of sense,” David Gordon Green laughed with MTV
News, revealing that he’s already written and hopes to direct a new version of
the 1977 film. “But it’s wicked. I love it, plot holes and everything.
“‘Suspiria’ is a classic for me,” he continued. “I want to be scared. I want
to be afraid.”
No genre has been more maligned in recent years than horror, particularly its
seemingly ubiquitous off-shoot, the “torture porn,” of which “Suspiria” is
surely a distant progenitor. The film, about an American student abroad in
Germany who discovers that the dancing school she attends is actually home to a
coven of Satanic witches, contains one of the most violent on-screen murders in
film history – a grisly end Eli Roth on his best day couldn’t match for shock
value.”
“It’s an opportunity to take all artistic excellence and be inspired by what
was a low budget Italian 70’s gore movie,” he said. “Where the art world meets
the violent and supernatural.
“I would love to get every geek that loves torture porn and every old lady in
line to see ‘Phantom of the Opera’ to come and have this insane experience.”
