Phenomena by Dario Argento will have a sequel

Phenomena is about to return. The 1985 film directed by Dario Argento, and defined by himself as one of his favorites at the time, immediately became a cult: the film starred a very young Jennifer Connelly in the role of a girl, the daughter of a movie star, who she is sent to a Swiss boarding school and there she discovers that she is endowed with great psychic powers that allow her to communicate with insects and that she uses to stop a serial killer who persecutes young local women. Now the story will continue with a sequel that will be "an American film with an American director and both an American and an international cast", set in the present day, so a sequel rather than a remake.

The news reaches the Market International Audiovisual (Mia) of Rome, in the words of Stefano Bethlen, general manager of Titanus. Precisely this project is one of those that will participate in the relaunch of the historic Italian film house: born in 1904, it was one of the proponents of the golden age of Italian cinema before and after the Second World War (with titles such as Pane amore e fantasia and Il gattopardo), above all thanks to its long-lasting alliance with the American MGM; more recently it had stopped production and devoted itself to distribution, but now the new direction is to ally with international producers to make new titles.

Phenomena, for example, will be produced by The Exchange, Los Angeles studios. Among the other projects there will also be Piedone, a TV series produced with Wildside and Sky that will resume the saga of action films of the seventies starring Bud Spencer: the new serial adaptation will be signed by Peppe Fiore (Il re, The Young Pope) and by Salvatore Esposito (the Genny of Gomorrah) and will also be set in the present day, with a new protagonist who receives the legacy of the legendary Rizzo, a somewhat abusive police inspector. Another upcoming title will be Ludwig, a series focused on serial killers Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan, who in the 1980s had founded a neo-Nazi group that targeted homosexuals, prostitutes and other people they consider as "degenerates".