Takashi Miike’s ‘Audition’ Getting a Remake from Focus Features

A true horror classic, Takashi Miike’s Audition is impossible to scrub from your brain even 26 years after its original release, and a fresh take on the tale is now in the works.

Deadline reports today that Focus Features, Hyde Park Entertainment and Mario Kassar Productions are “nearing a deal” to produce a new adaptation of Ryū Murakami’s 1997 novel Audition, which served as the basis for Takashi Miike’s movie back in 1999.

Christian Tafdrup, who directed the original Danish version of Speak No Evil that was remade by Blumhouse last year, is co-writing the new Audition with brother Mads Tafdrup.

Executive Producers include Cineverse’s Chris McGurk and Yolanda Macias.

Ryo Ishibashi and Eihi Shiina starred in Takashi Miike’s Audition. In the Japanese horror film, “A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.”

Meagan Navarro wrote here on Bloody Disgusting in 2020, “Twenty years later, Audition is still being discussed for its themes and critiques on gender and generational divides. It played an influence on the horror trend dubbed “torture porn” in the early to mid-aughts, too; Eli Roth cited the film as a significant influence on Hostel and even put Miike in his movie in a cameo role. Audition is brutal and provocative, and it remains one of modern horror’s best.”

Stay tuned for more on the Audition remake as we learn it.