The Hollywood Reporter had an interview, earlier this week, with writer-director Wim Wenders. He revealed to the magazine that his next project will be a horror film titled ‘Miso Soup’, and is set to star Willem Dafoe (Platoon, Shadow of the Vampire).

It is going to be very exciting,” He tells the Hollywood Reporter. “Horror is one genre that is used much less than others to transport other things. Lot’s of people have used great thrillers to transport political messages but the horror film is rarely used to transport anything but fear. And that I think makes it very interesting to try. It’s called Miso Soup and is based on a famous Japanese novel. Willem Dafoe is attached to star. We will shoot in Tokyo next spring. But I’m not telling you anything else.”

The novel Wenders refers to, above, is ‘In the Miso Soup’ by Ryu Murakami (who also wrote the novel that became Takashi Miike’s ‘Audition’). This novel follows Kenji, a Japanese tour guide. He soon begins to suspect that his latest client, an American named Frank, has killed a local school girl and sacrificed a homeless man.