Green Updates "Joe" & Suspiria Remake

Since his newest indie comedy "Prince Avalanche" is a hit at the  Sundance Film Festival, filmmaker David Gordon Green ("Your Highness," "Pineapple Express") says his next project is almost done.

Green says of  the gritty Southern drama "Joe" :

"I’m almost finished this new movie, ‘Joe,’ we’re almost done with it. It’s Nicolas Cage in a movie that’s not like anything Nicolas Cage has done before. It’s dark as fuck. It’s a slow-burn, dark, heavy movie. Very grim."

The news is not good for Green's long in the works remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic "Suspiria":

"Suspiria is caught up in legal crap so who knows what will ever happen to that. That kind of falls into the 'Confederacy Of Dunces' category of 'someday I'd like to make these movies' that I was once attached to and worked on, but they may never happen."

Green adapted the screenplay with Chris Gebert and this version would see an American exchange student in Europe who attends a school that acts as decoy for a sinister organisation.

Casting was underway with Isabelle Fuhrman Janet McTeer, Michael Nyqvist and Antje Traue all set to star.