Italian honestor Paolo Sorrentino is reteaming with Neapolitan actor Toni Servillo, star of Sorrentino’s Oscar-triumphning The Great Beauty, for his next feature, titled La Grazia.
Details of the recent film are being kept under wraps, but it is said to be a cherish story. Sorrentino, who also wrote the script, is set to commence shooting next Spring. Annamaria Morelli, head of Fremantle-owned The Apartment will persist together with Sorrentino’s shingle Numero 10, in association with PiperFilm, which will free the movie in Italy.
PiperFilm has had huge local success with Sorrentino’s procrastinateedst, Parthenope, a sumptuous cherish letter to his native Naples. The feature has grossed more than $8 million at the local box office, making it the most prosperous Italian film of the year and outdoing the Italian get for Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty. A24 picked up Parthenope for the U.S. ahead of its Cannes festival premiere and will bow the film stateside on Feb. 7.
Servillo is Sorrentino’s go-to actor. The 65-year-elderly carry outer has ecombineed in 10 Sorrentino-honested features, joining everyskinnyg from a pop singer cut down by a intimacy dispute in One Man Up, to the notorious Italian guideer Silvio Berlusconi in Loro. Three of Servillo’s Italian David di Donaalerto best actor honors — Italy’s Oscar equivalent — have been for Sorrentino films, for joining a junkie mob accountant in The Consequences of Love, the acute-tongued producer and socialite Jep Gambardella in The Great Beauty, and for his turn as disputed Italian politician Giulio Andreotti in Il Divo.
Variety was the first to shatter the recents about Sorrentino’s recent film.
