Dario Argento to Direct Dracula 3D; Asia Argento to Direct A Hunting Gun

The Argento family is having a busy week. From the Cannes marketplace, there is news that Dario Argento will make a new, ‘faithful’ take on Dracula, in 3D. And then his daughter Asia Argento, who had sworn off screenwriting after The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, is back with a new film called A Hunting Gun, which she is writing with husband Michele Civetta and Japanese author Yasushi Inoue.
Dracula first up, but we don’t have a lot of details. STYD’s Alan Jones said via earlier today, “Just announced, Dario Argento’s Dracula in 3D, filming in Italy in January, period setting.” Argento is writing as well as directing. Further info from STYD says the sales material for the film describes it as “a faithful translation of the Bram Stoker novel.” Well, it can’t help but be more faithful than Bram Stoker’s Dracula, right? Shock’s report also has some sales art you can check out, though it’s nothing special.
And then there’s Asia Argento, who last released The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, in 2004. That was based on the memoir by J.T. Leroy, which spun a tale of abuse, drug addiction, seduction via pre-teen cross dressing and further horrifying family dynamics.
But the book turned out to be a con, written by Laura Albert with Savannah Koop playing the male Leroy in public appearances. That wasn’t exposed until after the film was released. While you might find it difficult to believe that Argento didn’t know that Leroy was phony, she claims that the exposure of the truth made it impossible for her to write another film.

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