Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
This guy is a very new spy, so I can’t vouch for his credibility yet. Still, news on Dario Argento is too good to pass up, so here’s the rumor for today, and I’ll be working to follow up and see if we can confirm the details today’s scooper spills. One thing’s for sure... if Argento’s making a giallo again, I’m interested.
Hello Harry/Mori/Whomever...
As promised, I send you some info about the New Argento Flick.
It seems that after an endless period of rewrites, Dario Argento and his trusted screenwriter Franco Ferrini, who wrote most of Argento’s Movies, finally gave birth to a Final Draft.
Everything is still kept very secret – but, since he is starting to shoot the movie in Rome this spring, more news will soon be available. (By the way, Argento intended to shoot in Venice; he clearly expressed he wanted “to experiment with the mysteries of water - It was Ferrini that persuaded Argento to shoot in Rome - probably for budgetary reasons)
Anyway – The Movie, which was formerly known as “Occhiali Neri” (BLACK GLASSES), has a new (definitive?) title: “Il Cartaio” (THE CARD DEALER).
“THE CARD DEALER” will be a “Giallo” (“Giallo” meaning yellow, which comes from the yellow covers of the penny-dreadful detective/thriller paperbacks that are sold in Italy since the Sixties) – and not a Horror Movie. In fact it’ll be Argento’s first film in which police investigations will play a major role.
THE CAST
STEFANIA ROCCA – who, apart from appearing in many Italian flicks, also starred in movies by Minghella (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Branagh (Love’s Labor’s Lost), Figgis (Hotel), and recently in Tykwer’s Heaven – will play the lead, as a young (and big breasted!!!) Detective who has to stop the psychopath/killer.
While the whole casting has already been done (all Italian Actors), they still have to cast another main character, a French cop that comes to Rome to investigate about the killings – and this is clearly nothing new to Argento’s thematic, since we can find a significant Stranger/Foreigner in almost every one of Argento’s Films.
What will be a NEW to his Authorial Vision – is the real protagonist of this movie: “INTERNET”
Metaphorically speaking, “The Card Dealer” is the one who organizes the game, the one who gives out the cards, the one who allows the others to play...
In fact, “The Card Dealer” is nothing else than the “nickname” that the psychopath/killer uses when he communicates with the police via chat rooms and e-mails, when he informs the police about his killings. Does he want to be stopped? Is he challenging them into some sick and perverted game? I wanna Know! I wanna Know!
That’s all for now, I know, it’s not much, but more news will come. Let’s really hope that Argento can interpret/reinvent this abundantly abused “Internet-Theme” (Fear Dot Com, anybody???) and create something creepy, challenging and finally worth seeing - since his latest offerings haven’t actually been at the same niveau as his first movies.
Perfect Popcorn
Thanks a lot, man. I hope we start getting in more details about this one soon.
"Moriarty" out.
