For too long, it’s looked as if 2019’s ill-fated Domino would be the swan song to the great Brian De Palma’s career. While rumors of his retirement swirled, the filmmaker himself teased one more project that he was hoping to make. And now we know it’ll be Sweet Vengeance, a film he first revealed back in 2018.
The Film Stage reports that De Palma will finally direct Sweet Vengeance, with plans to shoot this summer in Portugal. The site was also first to confirm the story eight years ago, so it is particularly in tune with this one for some reason.
As for plot details, the project is reportedly “inspired by two true stories of murders” with some true-crime aspect in the way it’ll be presented, with De Palma saying at the time, “I’m interested in how they tell the story of the crime, so I’ll do it the way [they] do on television.”
Now we know Sweet Vengeance will also include “two quintessential De Palma setpieces” which could mean anything, but could be an elaborate murder or an extensive tracking scene of some kind.
De Palma is the director behind such provocative, suspenseful cult classics as Carrie, Body Double, Scarface, and Blow Out, while finding commercial success with Mission: Impossible and The Untouchables.
