Chloë Grace Moretz set to star in Sus­piria remake

Hav­ing already cut her remake teeth hav­ing starred in the likes of Car­rie and Let Me In (a remake of Let the Right One In), Chloë Grace Moretz is now set to star along­side Til­da Swin­ton and Dako­ta John­son in a remake of Dario Argento’s clas­sic 1977 hor­ror, Sus­piria. The film will receive fund­ing and world­wide dis­tri­b­u­tion from Ama­zon Stu­dios, who have recent­ly worked with an impres­sive range of direc­tors from Jim Jar­musch to Woody Allen and Nico­las Wind­ing Refn.

Direc­tor Luca Guadagni­no is per­haps best known for 2015’s A Big­ger Splash, itself loose­ly based loose­ly on a 1969 Ital­ian-French film called La Piscine. David Kaj­ganich, who wrote A Big­ger Splash, will be pen­ning the script, which if stick­ing to the orig­i­nal will tells the sto­ry of a young Amer­i­can bal­le­ri­na who heads to a dance acad­e­my in Ger­many, only to dis­cov­er there is some­thing far more sin­is­ter going on there.

The remake will final­ly start film­ing in Octo­ber, hav­ing been up in the air since 2008. Tex­an direc­tor David Gor­don Green was long attached to the project, but due to legal rea­sons and lack of fund­ing, it nev­er happened.

Whether Guadagni­no can do full jus­tice to this hal­lowed prop­er­ty is anyone’s guess, but on the evi­dence of A Big­ger Splash, he’s clear­ly up for play­ing fast and loose with the orig­i­nal mate­r­i­al to explore inter­est­ing new angles. It’s cer­tain­ly a bold move for a direc­tor who comes from a tra­di­tion of more clas­si­cal, dra­mat­ic Euro­pean film­mak­ing. Our pre­dic­tion: it’ll look the busi­ness. But will he be able to bring the scares?

**Update 2 Novem­ber 2016**

Accord­ing to IndieWire, Sus­piria star Jes­si­ca Harp­er is also set to star in Guadagnino’s remake, which has instant­ly dou­bled our excite­ment giv­en how great her per­for­mance in the 1977 ver­sion is.