Claire Denis Moving Forward With Female Cannibal Crime Drama ‘The Soap Maker’

Claire Denis Moving Forward With Female Cannibal Crime Drama ‘The Soap Maker’

Claire Denis is moving forward with cannibal crime drama “The Soap Maker,” which the French auteur is now set to write and direct. The project, which was first shopped around in 2025 at Berlin’s EFM, has now gained traction. “The Soap Maker” is being produced by Gerry Pass for Chrome Entertainment, Sacha Ben Harroche for Felix Culpa (“Butterfly Jam”) and Ivy Freeman-Attwood for Silkscreen. Felix Culpa’s Riley Keough and Gina Gammell will execu…

Claire Denis to Direct Cannibal Crime Drama ‘The Soap Maker’

Claire Denis is in prep mode for a film that’ll bring her back to the genre roots of 2001’s “Trouble Every Day.”Denis is set to direct the cannibal crime thriller “The Soap Maker,” an updated remake of Italian director Mauro Bolognini’s 1977 movie “Gran Bollito,” which starred Shelley Winters as a serial killer who cooked the bodies of her victims into soap, cake, and cookies (via Variety).Bolognini’s film was itself based on real-life serial ki…