Darren Aronofsky in the running to make the Cujo remake on Netflix
The director of The Whale and Noé will chat with the platform to direct this remake project.
He had a filmmaker who has bite … and it is Darren Aronofsky which was chosen. The American director would be in discussions to direct Cujoremake of the famous horror novel of Stephen King Staging a Saint-Bernard thirsty for blood.
According to sources close to the project (via Variety), Cujo is still at a preliminary development stage, and Aronofsky has not yet had a creative meeting with Netflix. If the agreement resulted, this film would mark its first collaboration with a streaming platform.
The director of Requiem for a Dream And The Whale currently finalized Caught Stealinga police thriller produced by Sony, with Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz on the bill. The film is expected in theaters in August.
The new Cujo will be produced by Roy Lee. For the moment, the script is not written and Netflix is looking for a screenwriter as well as a director. The exit is therefore not planned for immediately.
Cujo is an emblematic horror film from the 1980s and 1990s, with a bloodthirsty killer dog, a formerly friendly Saint-Bernard, which becomes a killer after being bitten by a rabid bat. “”Donna Trenton’s husband is in New York, trying to manage a catastrophic advertising campaign. Feeling abandoned by her husband addicted to work, often absent, gave Trenton begins an affair with a local handyman. While she has to face the situation alone, she takes her car to the garage for repairs, but finds herself trapped with her son Tad in the car in the heat, facing the monstrous dog. “
