Director Nicolas Piece is confident in his Grudge reboot. He has compared his reboot to the famous David Fincher film Seven starring Brad Pitt. It is a bold claim for the already popular horror franchise.
In a recent interview with Nicolas Piece, the director tells Entertainment Weekly that his reboot will change the format of the film. It will be a “smarter, more nuanced horror story”:
Those movies will always exist and always be there for you to watch. I think that horror audiences these days are looking for a much more grounded, much more realistic, much more character-driven story in their horror movies.
We see what’s doing well now and it is these kind of smarter, more nuanced horror stories, and that’s what this is going to be. We’re trying to update it for contemporary sensibilities, and we have an unbelievable cast, and I think it’s going to be something very different.
Piece goes on to talk about the direction of the new Grudge, and what formula his movie is using:
There’s a thousand Grudge movies out there, and we wanted to figure out a way to kind of put a new, fresh spin on it, and it’s going to be exciting.
The movie is set up a lot more like Seven, that sort of movie. There’s a cop drama that drives the whole thing, and Andrea [Riseborough] is the lead detective on this new case that they’ve come upon, and is the driving force through the movie.
She’s incredible. She’s in absolutely everything and, when you see her act, you know why.
