Palme d’Or-winning Italian auteur Nanni Moretti (“The Son’s Room”) is about to quickly return behind digital camera on the romantic drama “Succederà questa notte” (“It Will Happen Tonight”), starring French star Louis Garrel and Italian A-lister Jasmine Trinca (“La Storia,” “Supersex”).
The 71-year-old idiosyncratic director, actor and screenwriter, who suffered a coronary heart assault in April however quickly recovered, is predicted to shoot the movie in Spain and Italy this fall. “It Will Happen Tonight” is loosely based mostly on the brief story assortment “Hungry Heart” (Lev Raev) by Israeli author Eshkol Nevo. Plot particulars are being stored below wraps. Moretti tailored Nevo’s brief story assortment along with frequent co-screenwriters Federica Pontremoli and Valia Santella.
Trinca, who was on the Cannes jury in 2023, made her function debut in Moretti’s “The Son’s Room” in 2001. This will likely be their first collaboration since Moretti’s anti-Silvio Berlusconi pic “The Caiman” in 2006.
“It Will Happen Tonight” will as a substitute mark Moretti’s first collaboration with Garrel who lately starred in French blockbusters “The Three Musketeers” elements 1 and 2 and will quickly be seen alongside Angelina Jolie in Alice Winocour’s “Couture.”
The movie’s solid additionally includes Angela Finocchiaro, Elena Lietti, Antonio De Matteo, Andrea Lattanzi, Hippolyte Girardot, Pietro Ragusa, and Paolo Sassanelli. Moretti, who typically seems in his personal movies, is predicted to only have a cameo.
Sacher Film and Fandango are producing in collaboration with Rai Cinema.
Moretti most lately competed in Cannes in 2023 with high-concept meta-comedy “A Brighter Tomorrow,” in which he stars as a Roman director who’s taking pictures a interval piece set in Rome in 1956.
Italian every day Il Messaggero broke the information of Moretti’s new movie particulars of which have been confirmed to Variety by Fandango.
