Bones & All and Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino wants to remake The Mummy with more of a horror bent. 'It’s a rotten body in rotten bandages, so what’s inside is [as] interesting as what’s outside.'
Director Luca Guadagnino would like to get the chance to remake The Mummy. Guadagnino is a writer and director most known for his Oscar-nominated work on Call Me By Your Name. Guadagnino’s newest work is Bones and All, a drama-horror film that will come out later this month.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Guadagnino shares with Collider that he would like to remake the 1932 film The Mummy. In an interview for Bones and All, Guadagnino was asked what horror classic he would like to remake. Guadagino responded that “it would be amazing to do something about The Mummy.” Guadagnino’s version of The Mummy would lean into the horror aspect of the original film and the mummy itself which, Guadagnino notes, is “a rotten body in rotten bandages.
That’s an incredible question that I didn’t prepare myself [for]. Oh my god, what should I do? I think it would be amazing to do something about The Mummy. It’s a rotten body in rotten bandages, so what’s inside is [as] interesting as what’s outside. It should be very scary and very, very terminal. It should be a little movie but with a lot of depth and very scary.
This begs the question, though, of if a horror-focused Mummy remake could work. A horror version of The Mummy would certainly diverge from what fans of the 1999 film are used to. Guadagnino, however, would not be a novice to the realm of horror remakes. In 2018, Guadagnino remade the 1977 horror film Suspiria. While Suspiria had its share of fantasy elements as well, the film did not shy away from the bloody and horrific aspects of the story.
Will Guadagnino’s Mummy Adaptation Get Made? Guadagnino’s The Mummy pitch is enticing, yet that is currently all it is: a pitch. Guadagnino was not even expecting this question in the interview, so he clearly does not have active plans in place to adapt and direct The Mummy. With his new horror film Bones and All being released shortly, audiences will soon get another taste of what Guadagnino’s idea of horror is like.