Dario Argento, Isabelle Huppert teaming up to remake a Mexican thriller from the 1940s

After making the poorly received Dracula 3D (watch it HERE), legendary filmmaker Dario Argento went ten years without directing another movie. Now he’s back with Dark Glasses, which will be available to watch on the Shudder streaming service sometime this fall (you can read our own Tyler Nichols’ review of Dark Glasses at THIS LINK) – and he has already lined up his next project. While at Frightfest back in August, Argento said his next film will be shot in Paris and is a remake of a Mexican thriller that was released in the 1940s. Now, ChaosReign.fr reports that Argento talked some more about his next project at the Sitges Film Festival, revealing that filming will begin in the spring of 2023… and Isabelle Huppert has signed on to star in the movie!

An Oscar nominee for her performance in Paul Verhoeven’s 2016 thriller Elle, Huppert has racked up almost 150 screen acting credits over the course of a career that goes back more than fifty years. She made her screen debut in the 1971 French TV movie Le Prussien and since then has appeared in such films as Greta, Eva, Mrs. Hyde, the three-film story The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, I Heart Huckabees, 8 Women, Madame Bovary, A Woman’s Revenge, The Bedroom Window, Deep Water, Heaven’s Gate, The Brontë Sisters, Rosebud, Going Places, and Successive Slidings of Pleasure, among many others.

Plot details on the movie Argento and Huppert will be making together are being kept under wraps. Argento doesn’t even want to reveal the title yet.

So while we wait to hear more about that Paris-shot thriller, we’ll continue to focus on Dark Glasses for now. Described as “a classic giallo with a touch of horror”, Dark Glasses stars Ilenia Pastorelli as “a prostitute blinded by a serial killer in a botched attack. She takes in a young Chinese boy, whose life has also been abruptly altered forever by the maniac’s actions. He will become her ally in a terrifying struggle to see off the serial killer forever.“

Are you a fan of Dario Argento, and are you looking forward to learning more about the thriller he’s going to be making with Isabelle Huppert? Any ideas as to which 1940s Mexican thriller he might be remaking? Let us know by leaving a comment below.