Thom Yorke is scor­ing the Sus­piria remake

Beloved British rock icon Thom Yorke is con­firmed to be con­tribut­ing music to the upcom­ing remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 hor­ror, Sus­piria. The acclaimed Ital­ian film­mak­er Luca Guadagni­no, whose cred­its include A Big­ger Splash, I Am Love, is direct­ing the new ver­sion of the cult classic.

This will mark the sec­ond occa­sion that the Radio­head front­man has scored a fea­ture film, fol­low­ing his con­tri­bu­tion to doc­u­men­tary The UK Gold (aka Off­shore Incor­po­rat­ed) in 2015. It’s impor­tant to point out just how inter­est­ing a choice Yorke is here; one of the most mem­o­rable ele­ments of Argento’s film is its chill­ing orig­i­nal score by Ital­ian prog-rock band Goblin.

Of Yorke’s involve­ment in the project, Guadagni­no has stat­ed, ​“Thom’s art tran­scends the con­tem­po­rary. To have the priv­i­lege of his music and sound for Sus­piria is a dream come true. The depth of his cre­ation and artis­tic vision is so unique that our Sus­piria will sound ground­break­ing and will deeply res­onate with view­ers. Our goal is to make a movie that will be a dis­turb­ing and trans­form­ing expe­ri­ence: for this ambi­tion, we could not find a bet­ter part­ner than Thom.”

Sus­piria tells the sto­ry of a young Amer­i­can bal­le­ri­na who goes to train at a pres­ti­gious Ger­man dance acad­e­my, grad­u­al­ly uncov­er­ing its dark secrets.

As pre­vi­ous­ly announced, the star-stud­ded cast fea­tures Til­da Swin­ton, Dako­ta John­son, Mia Goth, Chloë Grace Moretz, Lutz Ebers­dorf and Jes­si­ca Harp­er, who also starred in the 1977 film. Ama­zon Stu­dios have co-financed Sus­piria along­side K Peri­od Media, and will release the film the­atri­cal­ly in the US.

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