Nach der ersten Ankündigung für Argentos neues Projekt gibt es jetzt schon die ersten Details:
Alan Jones writes: "Hi Nick, Dario’s new project might well be the English language thriller GIALLO written by Sean Keller and Jim Agnew. (The same writers have also just written John Carpenter’s latest LA GOTHIC). But while nothing has been set in stone regarding start date and other finer details, here’s what it’s about.You might at first think the title simply refers to the type of stylized Italian crime thriller Dario popularized with THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE. Indeed, the story revolves around his favourite themes of gorgeous victims, excessive bloodletting and deviant killers. However, here the maniac responsible for a string of mutilation murders in Milan (but he’ll film in Turin again), is actually yellow, the literal English translation of the Italian world. Thanks to hereditary liver disease Hepatitis C, the psycho’s skin is a vivid sallow colour. His equally jaundiced view of the world compels him to first make the pretty women he picks up in his (yellow) taxi cab ugly before killing them.Favoured methods include cutting off their eyelids and lips. The four main characters are air hostess Linda Clark (Asia’s role) whose catwalk model sister Celine has gone missing, Detective Enzo Lavia (Ray Liotta) who is driven to tracking down the pattern killer due to past demons, and the madman, referred to as Yellow (Vincent Gallo – note that’s Giallo with the 'i' missing in what is bound to feature in the marketing campaign). Key scenes echo Dario’s famous work – e.g. a glass roof Mall sequence - there’s a puzzling logo clue and there are a couple of neat twists along the way to keep a surprise element to the unusual finale. I can’t be more precise about the plot, deliberately styled after Dario’s early thrillers, although I do feel it has CAT O NINE TAILS meets OPERA potential. More details soon."
ROME — Italo horror-meister Dario Argento will shoot “Giallo,” an English-language homage to the genre that made him a cult helmer, with Ray Liotta, Vincent Gallo and Argento’s daughter Asia Argento attached to star.
Argento’s latest thriller will revolve around serial slashings of some very attractive women being investigated by a solitary cop, played by Liotta, who engages in a cat-and-mouse game with the psychopathic perpetrator, played by Gallo.
Los Angeles-based Hannibal Pictures, headed by Richard Rionda Del Castro, is co-producing “Giallo” with Argento’s own Rome-based Opera Film shingle. The screenplay is by Yank scribes Jim Agnew and Sean Keller.
Hannibal’s Rafael Primorac will produce with Rionda Del Castro and Opera’s Claudio Argento both taking executive producer hats. Hannibal will kick off “Giallo” presales at the upcoming EFM mart in Berlin.
Shooting on “Giallo” is set to start in February in Turin, the Northern Italian city where Argento shot his most recent slasher, “The Mother of Tears,” also starring Asia Argento. The Turin Piedmont Film Commission is providing production incentives.
True to its title, which means “yellow” in Italian and is the Italo term for pulpy thrillers, “Giallo” will aim to deliver the slasher thrills of Argento’s cult classics of the 70s, such as “The Bird with the Crystal Plumage,” “Suspiria” and “Deep Red,” a stage musical version of which is currently launching in Italy.
Dario Argentos neues Projekt klingt schön nach "back to the roots", ein Trend, der sich ja auch schon durch die Vollendung der "Mütter"- Trilogie abgezeichnet hat. Ich bin auf jeden Fall gespannt auf "Giallo"! Wenn weitere Infos auftauchen, werde ich darüber berichten...
Wieder eine etwas ausführlichere Review von mir, diesmal zu Sergio Martinos äußerst ungewöhnlichem Giallo- Beitrag "Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key" (1972)! Bitte hier entlang!
Filme sind jetzt seit ungefähr 8 Jahren ein fester und nicht mehr wegzudenkender Bestandteil meines Lebens. Zu Beginn meiner Leidenschaft – kurz zurückgerechnet: mit ca. 13/14 Jahren – waren es natürlich leicht zugängliche Mainstreamfilme, die mein Interesse erweckt hatten. Dabei kann ich zwar nicht behaupten, dass mein Filmkonsum damals schon so uneingeschränkt und ausufernd war wie heutzutage, aber selbst zu der Zeit ließ ich es mir nicht nehmen, so viel zu gucken wie möglich. Über die Zeit - und mit wachsender (Film-)Erfahrung- kristallisierten sich schließlich bei mir bestimmte Lieblingsgenres/-richtungen heraus, zu denen sowohl das deutsche Kino der 20er/30er Jahre, der Film Noir, der Gangster- und der Horrorfilm (insbesondere der italienische Giallo) zählen.
