Director Olivier Assayas and his new star Alicia Vikander discuss remaking his beloved movie as a TV series (or whatever you want to call it).
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More than two decades after he first zipped Maggie Cheung into the Irma Vep catsuit, Olivier Assayas is remaking his own hit film into a series for HBO. The name and source material (Louis Feuillade’s 1915 silent film series Les Vampires) are the same — as are the meta critiques of the film industry and the general sense that everyone on screen is slowly losing their minds — but this time around, Assayas has aimed his pointed satire at the French film industry and Hollywood, instead of exploring a famous Hong Kong actress’s disorienting…
