Almodovar and Banderas Reunite on La Piel Que Habito

After pairing on five films in the eighties with Matador, Law of Desire, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown among others, two decades later Pedro Almodovar and Antonio Banderas are re-teaming on a project that was set up almost a decade ago. The project is so old that Penelope Cruz who was first attached, is no longer ripe enough to take on the role of the daughter – don’t feel sorry for her she won Oscar for Volver and got paychecks for Broken Embraces.

Based on the French novel “Mygale” by Thierry Jonquet and formerly known as “Tarantula”, this tells the story of a man’s revenge driven attack on his daughter’s rapist. A plastic surgeon, he confronts him and performs a sex change operation on him. Cruz would have played the plastic surgeon’s daughter.

Filming will take place this year on La piel que habito and should be at Cannes same time next year. Banderas was originally mentioned in the role of the rapist.