When we spoke with David Gordon Green at SXSW earlier this year, he snorted when we told him that IMDB had “Suspiria” listed in pre-production saying, “Oh, great, I’m glad to hear that. As soon as the check clears all those movies are happening. I’m going to be really busy for the next 48 years.”
Well, it looks like it might be closer to happening than we think. Italian producer Marco Morabito says (BadTaste. via Twitch) that Dario Argento has finally given his blessing to the project (he holds the rights to his film) saying that he is “convinced that his movie is a masterpiece and can’t be overshadowed.”
Don’t bother reading the BadTaste google translation from this Italian site, it’s near incomprehensible gibberish, but three things seem clear, at least according to this producer, 1) “Suspiria” is shooting next year, 2) David Gordon Green is directing and 3) rumors that Marilyn Manson would have a supporting role are false.
However, Green is becoming a busy man and is shooting the “The Sitter” with Jonah Hill in the fall, and then his latest picture, “Your Highness” arrives April 8, 2011 (he called it his “toughest film to shoot,” and it was delayed, originally set to come out this October). Apart from fine-tuning the latter and doing press and then shooting and editing “The Sitter” we’re not convinced “Suspiria” will actually shoot next year just because the producer says so. He’s also got a million projects in the works (including “Taking Flight,” an MTV animated series, “Free Country,” “Battling Boy” and maybe, one day, “Freaks Of The Heartland” which was basically halted by Overture for now), plus all the Rough House Pictures projects he’s developing. While a DGG-directed “Suspiria” remake sounds great, we would imagine his next move after “The Sitter” is definitely TBD at the moment.