Sorry, Quentin Tarantino fans, but the characters from Django Unchained are not headed for our telly boxes any time soon, at least outside of the movie showing on Netflix etc. Still, a French TV company wants to turn the idea of the 1966 inspiration for QT’s film and a version of Dario Argento’s Suspiria into TV series{
Django would reimagine Sergio Corbucci's cult 1960s Western, which helped turn Franco Nero into an icon and saw the coffin-dragging gunslinger take on a bandit chief. The concept was potent enough to spawn sequels, spin-offs and homages, which included Tarantino’s 2012 effort. It will be an English-language show with plans for an initial season of 12 episodes running 50 minutes each and, if successful, multiple follow-ups.
There’s a similar hope for Suspiria, which would transform 19th century writer Thomas De Quincey’s Suspiria De Profundis into a series, working from the same material that Argento used to make his 1977 horror. And if you’re afraid this means someone will muck it all up, Argento himself is attached to serve as artistic supervisor, with the show envisioned as a mystery series with De Quincey investigating psychological fantasies of evil. “The extraordinary freedom of expression and creativity that modern TV drama now offers and the interest that the public has shown towards it have encouraged me to take a stab at this new genre,” Argento says in a statement picked up by Screen International.
What the latter plans mean for David Gordon Green’s long-held intention to remake Argento’s film is anyone’s guess, but we figure that’ll go ahead anyway, assuming it ever gets off the ground.