French filmmaker Claire Denis (“High Life”) is now set to write and direct “The Soap Maker,” a true-crime thriller based on an Italian female serial killer who took the bodies of her victims and cooked them into things like soap (you might remember that “Fight Club” had some gross-out scenes about rendering human fat to make soap), cake, and cookies.
“The Soap Maker” is moving forward after it was first announced at the Berlin Film Market last year, and has a producing team that features Gerry Pass of Chrome Entertainment, Sacha Ben Harroche for Felix Culpa (“Butterfly Jam”), and Ivy Freeman-Attwood at Silkscreen.
