Despite the fact that Grindhouse didn’t set the box office on fire and Machete only did middling business, some directors are still convinced that homage-happy exploit-o-flicks can work on screen. One of the true believers is Frankie Latina, who is gearing up Skinny Dip to star Sasha Grey, Danny Trejo, Pam Grier and Brigitte Nielsen.
Grey spent her early career as a porn star, but has recently begun to crossover into more mainstream work such as Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience and episodes of US TV comedy drama Entourage.
**Skinny Dip **will find her as a young woman who goes au natural on a dare and ends up a victim of an attack. But she decides to get a little revenge by stealing a police uniform and dishing out some shotgunishment.
“I grew up on and have always loved the films of the 70’s and 80’s featuring such on-screen idols as Pam Grier, Laura Gemser and Grace Jones,” Latina told The Hollywood Reporter. “They contain, in my opinion, some of the most powerful female performances in cinema history. Skinny Dip will draw from a new, equally powerful and provocative actress in Sasha Grey. Combining the wild, exploitative sensibility of grindhouse films with strong female characters drawn from the present – these are the kinds of films I make and want to see.”
The real test will be if anyone else wants to see it…