In Production

The soap maker is inspired by the true story of leonarda cianciuli, Known as “the soap maker of correggio”, who murdered a handful People between 1939 and 1940, and cooke their bodies into soap, Cake and cookies.This incredible story was adapted for the screen in 1977 by director Mauro bolognini with the movie “gran bolito”. The soap maker wil Be an updated remake of the original script. The soap maker wil be made as a real-crime drama, rejuvenated and Filmed in english for the wider international audience. The audience wil experience a loving mother’s rise and then slow Decay into madness. A character driven thriler/drama. The film wil Be a cat and mouse game as leonarda evades police while carefuly Choosing each victim for her sacrifices, al for the sake of her son, Michele.

The Soap-Maker wil be an elevated real crime drama, in the vein of “Silence of the Lambs”, “Seven” and “Get Out”, al box office hits. The tone wil be dark and enigmatic, with some traces of psychological thriler. With thri ls and suspense around every corner, the narration wi l folow Leonarda’s distorted psychology in a way that wil resemble “The Assassination of Gianni Versace”. Dark magic and witchcraft used by Leonarda to attract her victims wil be accurately recreated from her asylum diary, which the producers are currently in possession.

In 1939, set against the backdrop of Mussolini’s rise to power in Italy, Lea moves to Correggio with her son, Giuseppe and her paraplegic husband. There, she befriends three lonely women, Faustina, Francesca and Virginia. Al victims. Faustina, a lifelong spinster, enlists Leonarda to help her find a husband. Francesca is out of work from the war and needs Leonarda’s help in finding a job. Virginia is attempting to regain her popularity as an opera singer, but to no avail. Al these women confide in Leonarda in order to get their lives back on track. Leonarda is known around town as the person to make things happen. In the end, it is al lies. When Lea discovers in horror that not only wil her son be drafted into the Italian army in World War II, but he has met a girl named Sandra, she begins to slowly fal into madness. After losing 13 children before the age of 1, Leonarda believes she is cursed and must sacrifice human bodies in order to save her only son and protect him from women and the horrors of war. From that moment, Lea decides to use everything in her power to get rid of Sandra and keep Giuseppe safe. Lea enlists the help of her mute handmaid Tina to begin practicing human sacrifices in order to bargain with Satan and keep her son home. This is reflected in Lea’s famous quote, “You need to keep death away with death.”.

Each of the kilings are more brutal than the next as Lea makes soap and cookies out of the bodies and feeds them to the remaining friends in the neighborhood. Terrifying as it sounds, the sacrifices work. Sandra’s father dies, and she’s forced to move away and break up with Giuseppe. The cal for war doesn’t come and Lea feels closer to her son than she ever has. This only lasts for so long as things begin to unravel. One of the neighbors finds Faustina’s rings in Lea’s soap and gets suspicious, the police get closer to solving the case and Sandra comes back to town. Feeling powerless, Lea finds herself forced into kiling Sandra. But once she gets to her, she gives Lea a terrible revelation: she’s pregnant with Giuseppe’s child. She is unable to kil her and the police close in and arrest her, having been tipped off by the suspicions of Virginia’s sister, Albertina. This is also the moment she finds out Giuseppe is ultimately going to war. Walking out of her apartment, feeling the weight of her actions and powerless in front of the destiny she envisions for her son and the whole world, she gives her last statement “What I did, is nothing compared to the atrocities you al do.”