Antonio Banderas is ready to flutter into theaters..

The 55-year-old Spanish actor will star in Brian Goodman’s sophomore film Black Butterfly alongside Piper Perabo and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

A remake of the French thriller Papillon Noir by Herve Korian, the script for the film was penned by Justin Stanley and Steve Hilts.

Banderas will portray Paul, a screenwriter with a bad case of writer’s block who befriends a grifter named Jack (Rhys Meyers). Perabo (Covert Affairs) is attached to play Laura, a real estate agent and love interest of Paul. After Paul invites Jack to stay with him in return for doing small tasks, the tables turn and Jack holds him hostage, forcing him to write a script. When Laura checks in on Paul, he takes her hostage as well. It soon becomes apparent that Jack may be a dreaded serial killer of young women that local police have been trying to track down.

Principal photography began shooting this month in the Monti Simbruini region of Italy, a favorite locale of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns. Production will continue in May in studios in Rome.

Banderas most recently starred in The 33 and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.