Claire Denis Plans Cannibal Thriller Film

“High Life,” “Beau Travail,” and “Let the Sunshine In” director Claire Denis has reportedly planned a cannibal crime thriller as one of her next films.

Denis, who last helmed the Grand Prix-winning “Stars at Noon” which released in 2023, is currently gearing up to shoot “Crying of the Guards” next month with Tom Blyth, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Matt Dillon and Isaach De Bankolé.

That film unfolds over the course of a single night near a construction site in Senegal. In the film, a group of workers are confronted by a man seeking justice for his brother’s death on site.

But Denis isn’t resting and is already lining up her next film after that – “The Soap Maker,” a remake of Italian director Mauro Bolognini’s 1977 movie “Gran Bollito”.

The original film was inspired by real-life serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli and followed Shelley Winters as a serial killer who cooked the bodies of her victims into cakes, cookies, and even soap.

“The Soap Maker” producers have acquired rights to the Bolognini movie along with Cianciulli’s diaries which she wrote while in psychiatric prison where she lived out her days after confessing her crimes.

Producers have pitched the film as a very dark work with comparisons being drawn to “Silence of the Lambs” and “Se7en”. The film is being shopped around at shopped around at EFM Berlin.

Source: Variety

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