Riccardo Scamarcio to play Modigliani in film.
Johnny Depp is to direct a brand new movie concerning the artist Amedeo Modigliani with Italian star Riccardo Scamarcio within the title function alongside Hollywood legend Al Pacino and French actor Pierre Niney.
Barry Navidi will produce the film, with Pacino solid as artwork collector Maurice Gangnat and Niney enjoying the function of artist Maurice Utrillo, in accordance with Deadline.
The movie will give attention to the turbulent lifetime of the Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920) who is widely known for his portraits that includes elongated necks and faces.
Tailored from the play by Dennis McIntyre, Depp’s movie might be set in Paris in 1916, with manufacturing scheduled to get underway in Budapest this autumn.
The film will chart a 48-hour “turning level” in Modigliani’s life, “in the end solidifying his popularity as a creative legend”, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter.
Depp, 59, mentioned he’s “extremely honoured” to be making a movie about Modigliani who endured “a lifetime of nice hardship, however eventual triumph — a universally human story all viewers can determine with.”
Navidi described the movie to Deadline as “a snapshot of Modigliani’s life that offers us perception into his wrestle as an artist affected by lack of recognition”, including that the mix of the solid and Depp’s path will make the film “a dream come true”.
The mission marks a return to directing for Depp, 25 years after he directed The Courageous through which he starred with Marlon Brando.
The transfer comes as he will get his profession again on monitor following his victory in a high-profile defamation trial in opposition to his former spouse Amber Heard final 12 months.
A short historical past of Amedeo Modigliani
Born in 1884, Modigliani spent his youth in Italy, finding out the artwork of antiquity and the Renaissance, earlier than shifting in 1906 to Paris, the place he got here into contact with different artists together with Pablo Picasso.
His time within the French capital was marred by poverty and sick well being, compounded by his use of alcohol and medicines, and he was largely underrated as an artist in his lifetime.
On 24 January 1920 Modigliani died of tubercular meningitis, aged 35.
The day after he died, his closely pregnant associate Jeanne Hébuterne took her personal life, aged 21, forsaking the couple’s 14-month-old baby, additionally referred to as Jeanne, who went on to jot down the biography Modigliani: Man and Fable in 1958.
Cowl photograph Johnny Depp. Picture: Lorena Sopena / Shutterstock.com
