With the Venice Film Festival in full swing, Tilda Swinton and Italian director Luca Guadagino were in the city to promote their latest movie, I Am Love, which Swinton also produced. However while they’ve worked together several times, the director told Variety that he’s now hoping to go on an American adventure and to take Swinton with him.
He says they’re working toegether on a remake of the 1958 Roslaind Russell comedy Auntie Mame, but bringing it up to date by setting it in the modern days and making it a, “rock-n-roll, super funny, super mainstream movie.”
The original Auntie Mame is about an unconventional woman who is forced to bring up her nephew Patrick after his father dies. The two immediately hit it off, getting into all sorts of zany adventures as they try to make their way through the Great Depression.
However it does sound slightly like Guadagino’s Mame plans are more a dream than anything close to reality, as he’s also quoted as saying, “This is an SOS for Warner Bros. to give us the rights for this remake, which only Tilda could do justice to.” Maybe he should have talked to the studio before the press, but we do reckon Swinton would be very good if the Mame remake ever does come to fruition.