Spanish director Pedro Almodovar must know something about actor Antonio Banderas that we don’t. Twenty years after casting the Desperado star as a mentally unstable, porn star-abducting nut in Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, Almodavar has now reunited with Banderas to tell the story of an unstable plastic surgeon who sets out to avenge the rape of his daughter utilizing the tools of his trade.

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La Piel Que Habito (Gringo translation: The Skin I Live In) is based on author Thierry Jonquet’s “Tarantula” and will begin production over the summer in Spain.

Almodavar described the project to Spanish newspaper El Pais:

The film will be a terror film, without screams or scares.  It’s difficult to define and although it comes close to the terror genre — something that appeals to me that I’ve never done — I won’t respect any of its rules. It’s the harshest film I’ve ever written and Banderas’ character is brutal.

It has always been my hope that when the Hollywood machine finally spat Banderas out he would star as me in my indie biographical film The Unbearable Lightness of Blogging: The Eddie Muertos Story.

However, this Almodovar movie may be better. I’m a huge Banderas fan. The guy always turns in crazy-intense performances when put in the right film (i.e. Desperado, Mambo Kings, Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Mask of Zorro, And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, and, hell, even Assassins).

Heading off to Spain to work with Almodovar is the best career decision Banderas has made in awhile … even better than creating his own cologne. Yes, that’s right, ladies. My balls smell just like Zorro’s.

To see Banderas with a nude Autumn Reeser, click here.

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