What Have You Done to Solange? is rounding out a trio of classic horror remakes being undertaken by Nicolas Winding Refn, Deadline is reporting.
The 1972 giallo film was originally helmed by Massimo Dallamano and produced by Fulvio Lucisano. As with the upcoming re-dos of Maniac Cop and Witchfinder General, Refn will produce but not direct. His Space Rocket Nation, in which he’s partnered with Lene Borglum, is teaming with Lucisano and his Italian International Film on the project.
Loosely based on the Edgar Wallace mystery novel “The Clue Of The New Pin,” What Have You Done To Solange? is set at an all-girls school where a killer is on the loose. Gym teacher Enrico Rosseni, who has been sleeping with one of his students, becomes a suspect and sets out to find the real killer. Ennio Morricone scored the original.
Refn calls it an “absolutely incredible Italian giallo movie. One of the great, great horror films from the period.”
The addition of the title to Space Rocket’s slate, Refn tells Deadline, is part of a “continuing renewal of genre movies, and bringing them to a new audience. I’ve really cherry-picked films that I think have a strong potential to be reinvented and also something that is artistically out there.”