Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Dario Argento's Deal With The Devil(s)

Oh joy. Another horror filmmaker has gone and signed over the rights to their next horror flick to those wascally wabbits the Weinsteins, thereby shuffling its chances of ever being seen straight off this mortal coil. Gah. Anyway, via BD:

"The Weinstein Company has acquired domestic distribution rights to Dario Argento's forthcoming Giallo, which is still yet to be filmed. Giallo stars Vincent Gallo as a serial killer and Ray Liotta as the detective who is pursuing him. The Weinstein's have also committed to distribute Argento's The Mother of Tears on DVD here in the States via Genius Products. Myraid is planning a limited NC-17 release for the film this spring."

This is what I picture the scene like over at Weinstein Inc. - A lackey walks into Harvey's office, grinning devilishly, and tells him that they've coerced another filmmaker into signing on the dotted line. Harvey smiles delicately, and then vomits feces from his eye-slits and sets fire to a village in Cambodia and rapes a dozen nuns with the torn-off limbs of a dozen orphans and invents a cancer that eats rainbows and butterflies and then takes a call from Billy Bush and says "All is going to plan, Master."
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