Italian director Paolo Sorrentino is reteaming with Neapolitan actor Toni Servillo, star of Sorrentino’s Oscar-winning The Nice Magnificence, for his subsequent function, titled La Grazia.
Particulars of the brand new movie are being saved beneath wraps, however it’s stated to be a love story. Sorrentino, who additionally wrote the script, is ready to start taking pictures subsequent Spring. Annamaria Morelli, head of Fremantle-owned The House will proceed along with Sorrentino’s shingle Numero 10, in affiliation with PiperFilm, which can launch the film in Italy.
PiperFilm has had enormous native success with Sorrentino’s newest, Parthenope, a luxurious love letter to his native Naples. The function has grossed greater than $8 million on the native field workplace, making it probably the most profitable Italian movie of the yr and surpassing the Italian take for Sorrentino’s The Nice Magnificence. A24 picked up Parthenope for the U.S. forward of its Cannes pageant premiere and can bow the movie stateside on Feb. 7.
Servillo is Sorrentino’s go-to actor. The 65-year-old performer has appeared in 10 Sorrentino-directed options, taking part in every thing from a pop singer reduce down by a intercourse scandal in One Man Up, to the infamous Italian chief Silvio Berlusconi in Loro. Three of Servillo’s Italian David di Donatello finest actor honors — Italy’s Oscar equal — have been for Sorrentino movies, for enjoying a junkie mob accountant in The Penalties of Love, the sharp-tongued author and socialite Jep Gambardella in The Nice Magnificence, and for his flip as controversial Italian politician Giulio Andreotti in Il Divo.
Selection was the primary to interrupt the information about Sorrentino’s new movie.