Suspiria and Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino is reportedly in talks to direct Warner Bros’ latest take on William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, a project the studio has been trying to mount for the past two years.
There have been a couple of versions of Lord of the Flies prior: Peter Brook’s 1963…
Chloë Sevigny is to star in Luca Guadagnino's forthcoming HBO/Sky drama We Are Who We Are. The actress, who recently starred in Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die and Hulu's The Act, is one of a number of cast including a slew of newcomers for the series, which shoots in Italy later this month.
The show, which Suspiria…
Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino’s latest film The Staggering Girl played this week at the Cannes Film Festival. Julianne Moore, Mia Goth, Kyle MacLachlan, KiKi Layne, Marthe Keller and Alba Rohrwacher star in the 35-minute piece which was made in collaboration with Pier Paolo Piccioli, creative director…
EXCLUSIVE: John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman), Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl), Boyd Holbrook (Logan) and Vicky Krieps (The Phantom Thread) have been set to lead cast on hot project du jour Born To Be Murdered, which will be produced by Luca Guadagnino and much of the team behind his Oscar-winner Call Me By Your…
One of the most influential musicians of the last 30 years, Thom Yorke has always had a crisis of confidence, when it comes to scoring films. Approached to score David Fincher's Fight Club back in 1999, the Radiohead frontman wouldn't come around to film for another 19 years, making his debut as a composer this year…
Before diving into one of her latest screen roles, in Desiree Akhavan's Sundance hit The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Chloë Grace Moretz needed to take a break. Squaring off with herself, the actress reflected on the decisions she was making in her career, and how they did or did not align with her initial reasons…
Approached for Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria—an homage to Dario Argento's giallo classic—makeup designer Mark Coulier was put to one specific test. Could he transform Tilda Swinton, one of the industry's most notable shapeshifters, into a man? A prosthetics wizard, Coulier had, over the years, taken on the vast…
It’s a bold move when another auteur remakes another auteur’s movie.
Martin Scorsese did it with J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 Cape Fear in 1992. Jonathan Demme had a revisionist take on John Frankenheimer’s 1962 political-thriller classic The Manchurian Candidate, casting Denzel Washington in the Frank Sinatra role of Ben…
On Suspiria, her first project with Oscar-nominated director Luca Guadagnino, production designer Inbal Weinberg faced challenges that were almost insurmountable, on creative and practical levels. An homage to Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic, rather than a straight remake, Guadagnino's film demanded boundless…
Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria is a wild ride. The Italian filmmaker’s re-imagining of Dario Argento's 1977 cult classic stars Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper (of the original) and Chloe Grace Moretz. Johnson leads cast as the American newcomer to the prestigious Tanz school who comes to realize it…
I am not sure the world was itching for a remake of Italian director Dario Argento’s 1977 cult horror classic Suspiria, but apparently it haunted another Italian helmer so much over the past 40 years that he just had to try. Ironically, in the same gap of decades between original and reboot as last week’s smash Hallowe…
Luca Guadagnino has given us summer Italian romance through Call Me By Your Name and supernatural dance academy conspiracies in the forthcoming remake of Suspiria. Now he is looking to tackle Bob Dylan. The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker is reteaming with RT Features for an adaptation of the legendary musician’s…
