With production now underway on director Luca Guadagnino’s (A Bigger Splash) remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic Suspiria, Amazon Studios has announced that Jessica Harper, star of the original movie, has joined the cast.
Harper will appear alongside Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Chloe Grace Moretz and Mia Goth. Details on her role are being kept under wraps, but the official synopsis for the film states that it will follow “Susie Bannion, a young American woman who travels to the prestigious Markos Tanz Company in Berlin in 1977, arriving just as one of its members, Patricia, has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. As Susie makes extraordinary progress under the guidance of Madame Blanc, the Company’s revolutionary artistic director, she befriends another dancer, Sara, who shares her suspicions that the Matrons, and the Company itself, may be harboring a dark and menacing secret.”
The Suspira remake is expected to arrive in cinemas in 2017.
Originally published November 1, 2016. Updated April 16, 2018.
