mictlan
12-11-2003, 04:59 AM
You may know that Suspiria and Inferno were supposed to be two parts of a trilogy, about the three witches who rule the world. The third film was stopped in the scripting stage when Argento and Daria Niccolodi (who wrote Suspiria and Inferno with Argento) split up.
Good news! Argento is working on the third film.
Incidentally the three mothers idea is based vaguely on a weird text by Thomas DeQuincey called Confessions of an English Opium Eater. It used to be online but I haven't been able to find it.
from http://www.darkdreams.org/trieste_report.html:
That’s when Dario told me the big news every Argento fan has been waiting for. “I’m working on the script for La Terza Madre/The Third Mother now. We will start shooting in August 2004 and a major Hollywood studio may possibly get involved. It’s about mysticism, alchemy, terrorism and Gnosticism (a religious movement characterized by a belief in intuitive spiritual knowledge, regarded as a heresy by the Christian church). So many heretics were tortured because of the Church and I’m living all that at the moment and sleeping with difficulty."
"It will be set in Rome where we will first see the Mother of Tears/Mater Lachrymorum in medieval times. Because she is the most beautiful and cruel of the three mothers, I’m currently looking at Russian models to play that part. Ana Pieroni (who played the cat-stroking mother in Inferno) will not be reappearing as she now has five kids! It’s been over 20 years since I left the Three Mothers behind and it’s good to go back and explore the story from a retrospective perspective. I’m discovering more about witchcraft than ever before”.
Good news! Argento is working on the third film.
Incidentally the three mothers idea is based vaguely on a weird text by Thomas DeQuincey called Confessions of an English Opium Eater. It used to be online but I haven't been able to find it.
from http://www.darkdreams.org/trieste_report.html:
That’s when Dario told me the big news every Argento fan has been waiting for. “I’m working on the script for La Terza Madre/The Third Mother now. We will start shooting in August 2004 and a major Hollywood studio may possibly get involved. It’s about mysticism, alchemy, terrorism and Gnosticism (a religious movement characterized by a belief in intuitive spiritual knowledge, regarded as a heresy by the Christian church). So many heretics were tortured because of the Church and I’m living all that at the moment and sleeping with difficulty."
"It will be set in Rome where we will first see the Mother of Tears/Mater Lachrymorum in medieval times. Because she is the most beautiful and cruel of the three mothers, I’m currently looking at Russian models to play that part. Ana Pieroni (who played the cat-stroking mother in Inferno) will not be reappearing as she now has five kids! It’s been over 20 years since I left the Three Mothers behind and it’s good to go back and explore the story from a retrospective perspective. I’m discovering more about witchcraft than ever before”.