Yesterday we reported that David Gordon Green’s John Grisham non-fiction adaptation had been put on indefinite hold. We made reference to his reported remake of horrormeister Dario Argento’s “Suspiria” and today comes a rumor from Bloody Disgusting, that flaky horror site that’s hit and miss with their reporting, that Natalie Portman’s company is going to produce it and she is hoping to star. Considering all the other shitty casting ideas we’ve heard today, this one’s not so bad.
The once lyrical and poetic Green is now becoming the master of all genres. He does cite the electic careers of Steven Soderbergh, Richard Linklater and Gus Van Sant as the model he’d like to follow. “I’m trying to channel as diverse a career as possible,” he told the New York Times, this past weekend. ” It’s good for me to switch gears. I don’t like the idea of someone looking at me funny when I say I want to do something. I like the idea of them saying, ‘That’s interesting.’ ”
Update: AICN is hearing this is not happening, or at least, not with Portman and hey, it surely wouldn’t be the first time BloodyDisgusting was dead wrong (lol).
Scene: “Suspiria”
