JScott
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11/25/2007 8:12 PM
posted awhile ago
Re:Anyone know anything about Pedro's next picture?
Nevermind I guess I can answer my own question... "Oscar nominee PENELOPE CRUZ is set to re-team with VOLVER director PEDRO ALMODOVAR for his next feature - LA PIEL QUE HABITO. The film is based on French author THIERRY JONQUET's 1995 novel MYGALE about a plastic surgeon who exacts hideous revenge on his daughter's rapist. Almodovar's producer brother AGUSTIN says, "The role is far darker" than the feisty heroine Cruz played in Volver. He adds, "It's 70 to 80 per cent to be Pedro's next (project)." Then I found this... "Spanish film writer and director, Pedro Almodóvar, has started to write two new screenplays which will, according to his brother and producer Agustín, be used after his current project ‘La piel que habito' – 'The skin I live in', which starts shooting in the summer.
The idea is to shoot the three films consecutively, in the same way that Almodóvar organised ‘Hable con ella’ and ‘Todo sobre mi madre’.
The new project stars Penélope Cruz, although the male lead is still to be revealed. The screenplay is based on a French novel ‘Tarántula’ written by Thierry Jonquet, and tells the story of a plastic surgeon who takes revenge on his daughter’s rapist by kidnapping the offender and performing a sex change operation on him.
Filming cannot start before the summer as Cruz is filming until then with Rob Marshall who is directing a screen version of the musical ‘Nine’ where Penélope´s co-star is already known – Javier Bardem, her current partner.
Bardem takes the role played by Antonio Banderas in the stage show on Broadway."
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