Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Argento talks Giallo

10:41 AM / Cinema / Comments3 Comments

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It doesn't bode well when a film's own director starts downplaying it prior to release, but that's exactly what Dario Argento did with his most recent film, Giallo, while attending the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors convention in New York, according to poster alanbobet on the film's IMDB board. Not only that, the outlook for the film appears to be bleak all round, as it seems that it is unlikely to secure a release any time soon.

He says:

Argento was in person this past Sunday at the NY Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors Con and during a stage interview with Maitland McDonagh(author of BROKEN MINDS BROKEN MIRRORS), Angento answered questions regarding his latest film, GIALLO and the news doesn't look good. Argento said that he doesn't know about the current status of GIALLO and if the film will be released here in the US or anywhere else this year. He lost contact with GIALLO's producers who are not answering his calls about the film and Dario said that he's not that enthusiastic about the film either since contrary to his other films, he didn't write or produced the film and he was simply a director for hire on GIALLO. But he did had great things to say about Adrian Brody, his lead actor in the film. After the stage interview, I personally met with Dario who autographed my copy of PROFONDO ARGENTO(which Dario commented that it was a great book on him) and even posed with me for a photo. He was so great, gracious and nice in person and by the way, he talked in English during the stage interview(although he had an Italian interpreter with him) and he spoke English with his fans including myself.

(Emphasis mine.)

Source: Dark Discussion

 
3 Comments

1. Griff said:

So strange. Why direct it, then?

This isn't the first time I've heard Argento bad-mouth one of his own films - just never before release.

Its a shame about the producers. Didn't they unceremoniously dump Claudio Simonetti from the production as well?

I'm surprised to hear all that AND to hear praise for Adrian Brody. I read that the actor was meant to have been pretty hands on for an executive producer.

(Posted on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 1:57 PM)

2. Christopher D. Jacobson said:

If that's all true, it's bothersome to hear. I thought this was supposed to be Argento's return to the genre. I didn't expect it to be anything mind-blowing, but I did expect it to be a pretty good film. But for him to not really have any creative control outside of directing? Disheartening.

(Posted on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM)

3. Author Profile Page Michael said:

To be honest, this is what I expected right from the start, from the moment I discovered that he was directing someone else's script for a US company. I wonder if perhaps he was simply flattered that a couple of writers would pen a direct homage to his work (although, by the sounds of it, there's nothing particularly Argento- or giallo-like about the narrative, at least in the finished product) and took on something that he wouldn't normally do. I suspect the positive experiences he had on the Masters of Horror series, which like Giallo he neither wrote nor produced himself, may also have influenced him.

In a way, I'm somewhat hopeful that his experiences on Giallo may push him towards getting a project of his own creation up and running before too long. I enjoyed Mother of Tears to an extent, but personally I'd like to see him working with an Italian co-writer again (either Franco Ferrini or someone with similar tastes), or indeed writing alone. Some of his best films are the ones he wrote himself - The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Tenebrae (despite the crediting of a non-existent "George Kemp" in the American version) and The Stendhal Syndrome.

(Posted on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 8:19 PM)

 
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