Among the juicy selection of titles that swelled the official section of the last edition of the Sitges Festival, a Danish feature film slipped through that, personally, I loved, and that managed to turn the stomachs —and even anger— a large part of the public with a wild, hair-raising and almost abominable climax. It’s called ‘Speak No Evil’ and its American remake is already underway.
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According to the people of Deadline, james mcavoy He will meet again with Blumhouse after their collaborations on ‘Multiple’ and ‘Glass’ to star in the new version of the Christian Tafdrup film. For his part, James Watkins will be in charge of occupying the director’s seat; a choice that fits perfectly with the project if we take into account that he debuted with the equally disturbing ‘Eden Lake’.
In the original film, a Danish family decides to accept the invitation of a Dutch family they met on vacation and spend a few days at their home. A premise that, little by little, starts to get trickier and trickier and puts on the table the supposed differences between the two nationalities with brutal harshness and levels of contained tension.
It remains to be seen if this new version of ‘Speak No Evil’, which Watkins’ has also written, has the guts enough to replicate the more controversial passages of its predecessor. For now, we will have to wait for the August 9, 2024; date that, to this day, is marked on the calendar for its premiere. The long Dane is not expected in our lands, unfortunately.
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