A brand new tackle the cult horror traditional “Audition,” one of many extra influential trendy horror movies within the torture-porn style, is coming to the display screen.
Focus Options is nearing a deal to supply a function adaptation of “Audition” primarily based on the 1997 horror-thriller novel by Ryū Murakami, which was initially dropped at the display screen by Japanese grasp Takashi Miike in 1999 starring Ryo Ishibashi and Eihi Shiina.
Focus will produce the challenge alongside Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Leisure and Mario Kassar Productions, who’ve tapped Christian Tafdrup to jot down and direct the movie. Tafdrup is the Danish director behind the unique “Converse No Evil,” which was final yr tailored into English by Blumhouse and Common. Tafdrup is co-writing the script together with his brother Mads Tafdrup.
“Audition” begins as a home drama of a widower who’s holding mock auditions with a view to discover a new spouse, solely to find that the girl he selects has a disturbing secret and darkish previous, rapidly pivoting into intense psychological horror. Although hardly a field workplace hit and barely identified in its native Japan, the movie is one in every of Miike’s best-known films amongst Western audiences. IndieWire beforehand named “Audition” as Miike’s greatest movie, and the movie has impressed administrators like Eli Roth and the “Noticed” franchise.
The brand new movie is being described not as a remake of Miike’s movie however a brand new tackle the unique novel.
Focus would produce alongside Hyde Park’s Ashok and Priya Amritraj and Mario Kassar for MKP. Murakami can be government producing, as are Chris McGurk and Yolanda Macias for Cineverse, the studio behind “Terrifier 2 and three.” Joyce Jun can be an EP.
Tafdrup can be an actor identified for his function within the 2017 journey sequence “Tinkas Juleeventyr.” He was nominated for Finest Director, Finest Authentic Screenplay, and Finest Movie for “Converse No Evil” on the 2023 Danish Movie Awards.
Deadline first reported the information on the challenge.