Although his delightful, small-scale drama Prince Avalanche just hit VOD and theaters last week, it would likely be abnormal for David Gordon Green to not have his hands in a variety of other projects. Before he recently shot a few episodes of Eastbound & Down‘s final season, he completed one of our most-anticipated films of the fall festival circuit with the Nicolas Cage-led Joe. Now word has come in on another potential project and one that should please those of us that were disappointed that his Suspiria remake fell apart.
Speaking with Esquire (via The Playlist), the Pineapple Express director first opened up about the aforementioned remake, saying, “I’ve got the whole movie in my head. It’s ready to go, but it just costs too much. My version of it costs too much.” He adds, “Someone needs to do something very artful with that project. I’m just excited at the thought of making something elegant, and graphic, and classy at a point in the horror genre where everybody’s making films raw, and found-footage. I want something to contrast that, but anybody that’s interested in horror movies has no interest in that right now. At least, not with my involvement. But maybe someone else will do it.”
Jumping to an interesting bit of news, the director reveals he may re-team with his Prince Avalanche producer on another project in the genre. He says Compliance director Craig Zobel “just wrote a horror film I was reading, and was thinking of making. It’s pretty creepy, and really cool. So we’re bouncing ideas around with that, and a few other disturbing things we’ve been delving into. There are a lot of good movies to make. My problem is I’m only one person. That’s why it’s great that now a lot of my buddies are kind of getting into it. They’re like, “Okay, you go make this one, and I’ll make that one.” It’s fun to be able to pass the torch and have something I get to watch.” As we await news on that potential film, check back for our review of Joe, and in the meantime, watch two half-hour interviews with Green for his latest film.