Johnny Depp To Direct ‘Modigliani’, His First Directorial Effort in 25 Years; Al Pacino Co-Producing
Johnny Depp is due to hop back into the director’s seat for the first time in 25 years with Modigliani, a feature film about the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, which he will co-produce alongside Al Pacino.
Sources close to Depp confirmed the news of the production with Deadline. Barry Navidi will co-produce alongside Depp and Pacino. The film marks Navidi’s fourth collaboration with Pacino whom he worked with on The Merchant Of Venice (2004), Wilde Salomé (2011), and Salomé (2013). Depp and Pacino also starred opposite each other in the 1997 crime flick Donnie Brasco.
Based on a play by Dennis McIntyre and adapted for the screen by Jerzy and Mary Kromolowski, the film will tell the story of the painter and sculptor in Paris in 1916. Modigliani will chronicle the life of the Italian artist across a turbulent and eventful 48 hours. THR first reported news of the project.
The project is aiming to...
Sources close to Depp confirmed the news of the production with Deadline. Barry Navidi will co-produce alongside Depp and Pacino. The film marks Navidi’s fourth collaboration with Pacino whom he worked with on The Merchant Of Venice (2004), Wilde Salomé (2011), and Salomé (2013). Depp and Pacino also starred opposite each other in the 1997 crime flick Donnie Brasco.
Based on a play by Dennis McIntyre and adapted for the screen by Jerzy and Mary Kromolowski, the film will tell the story of the painter and sculptor in Paris in 1916. Modigliani will chronicle the life of the Italian artist across a turbulent and eventful 48 hours. THR first reported news of the project.
The project is aiming to...
- 8/15/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
- I’m not sure if the alarmist print media are truly taking notice, but for the past couple of months, a whole bunch of home video distributors are coming out of the woodworks and joining the theatrical release game. With the majors closing down shops, Variety reports that a company like Image Entertainment will test the theater exhibition business with the Afm deal that gives them the rights to Bertrand Tavernier's serial killer thriller that features a Tommy Lee Jones in the swampy backwoods. This past summer, Image released Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World, and they will release Tavernier’s In the Electric Mist sometime in spring 2009. I’ve got a fairly complete synopsis from our preview page: scripted by Jerzy Kromolowski, Mary Olson-Kromolowski and Jones, this is an adaptation of James Lee Burke’s novel, which centers on Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux.
- 11/6/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- #100.In the Electric Mist Director: Bertrand Tavernier (A Sunday in the Country) Screenwriters: Tommy Lee Jones, Jerzy and Mary-Olson Kromolowski Producers: Frédéric Bourboulon (Holy Lola) and Michael Fitzgerald (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada) Distributor: Currently Seeking Distribution The Gist: Scripted by Jerzy and Mary Olson-Kromolowski and Jones, this is an adaptation of James Lee Burke’s novel, which centers on Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux. New Iberia Lt. Dave Robicheaux is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni–back in his home parish as co- producer of Hollywood director Michael Goldman’s Civil War film–when sozzled/psychic movie-star Elrod Sykes, pulled over for drunk driving, starts babbling about a corpse he found in the Atchafalaya Swamp–the corpse of a black man Dave had seen murdered 35 years before. Fact: This is veteran French director's English-language debut. See It:
- 1/28/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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