Luca Guadagnino needs to direct very scary remake of The Mummy

Over the a long time for the reason that Common Monsters made their debut on the silver display screen, every Monster has acquired its personal share of remakes and reimaginings. The Mummy franchise has been notably prolific. The unique 1932 film spawned a handful of sequels, a Hammer Horror franchise, the Brendan Fraser trilogy (which in flip spawned a collection of Scorpion King prequels), and a reboot starring Tom Cruise. Regardless of the way you slice it, The Mummy continues to shuffle ahead, however might the following remake come from Luca Guadagnino?

Luca Guadagnino lately spoke with Collider about his upcoming film Bones and All and was requested what basic horror film he’d most prefer to remake. “That’s an unimaginable query that I didn’t put together myself [for],” Guadagnino stated. “Oh my god, what ought to I do? I feel it might be superb to do one thing about The Mummy.” As for what attracts him to The Mummy, Luca Guadagnino defined, “It’s a rotten physique in rotten bandages, so what’s inside is [as] fascinating as what’s exterior.” Whereas the final handful of remakes have given The Mummy an action-adventure makeover, Guadagnino needs to return the film to its horror roots. “It ought to be very scary and really, very terminal.” He stated. “It ought to be a bit of film however with a number of depth and really scary.” As a lot as I really like the Brendan Fraser motion pictures, I’d be more than pleased to see a really scary remake of The Mummy. In fact, Luca Guadagnino isn’t any stranger to placing his spin on basic horror motion pictures as he beforehand directed a reimagining of Dario Argento’s Suspiria.

Luca Guadagnino’s subsequent film is Bones and All, which tells the story “of past love between Maren, a younger lady studying the right way to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter; a liberating highway odyssey of two younger individuals coming into their very own, looking for id and chasing magnificence in a dangerous world that can’t abide who they’re.” The movie stars Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet and can open huge on November twenty third.

Would you prefer to see a remake of The Mummy by Luca Guadagnino?