David Gordon Green talks Suspiria remake plot, Goblin score, Argento homage

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

The last couple of days have been filled with buzzing about the impending SUSPIRIA remake, since director David Gordon Green (PINEAPPLE EXPRESS) announced that it may be his next project. While any horror fan will tell you that a remake is absolutely unnecessary, Green seems to be taking precautions to do this one right.

He is still fleshing out the script with hopes of entering production next fall or winter. He spoke briefly about the story: “I just finished a new draft of the script. It’s very faithful to the original, although it doesn’t have anything to do with ballet – it’s more of an all-girls boarding school and focuses more on the occult.”

He will also pay homage to Dario Argento’s 1977 original: “I think it’s something that’s very closely inspired by Argento’s original movie, and I think fans of that movie will see that we’re taking those concepts – and in some cases those scenes, and in some cases those exact shots and dialogue -and expanding on it and making it very artful. And hopefully, horrifying.”

And, in perhaps the best news, the original Goblin score will be recreated: “We got the rights to the Goblin score, so we’re going to use that. Steve Jablonsky, who did the score for YOUR HIGHNESS, is incredible. So I would love to see what he would do with the Goblin music. We could start in a very faithful, synthesizer kind of world of music that Goblin does in the original film, and by the end of it turn that score into a huge opera, which would be incredible.”

Jablonsky is no stranger to genre remakes; the frequent Michael Bay-collaborator has served as composure on the Platinum Dunes remakes, including FRIDAY THE 13TH and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, as well as TRANSFORMERS. Do you think he, along with Green, can do Goblin and Argento justice?