Netflix Acquires Julian Schnabel’s ‘In the Hand of Dante’ Movie
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix you snapped up In the Hand of Dante, from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Julian Schnabel.
The pic, which contains a huge forged of headliners together with Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Louis Cancelmi, Sabrina Impacciatore, Franco Nero, Benjamin Clementine, Paolo Bonacelli, Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino and Jason Momoa, had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival final yr the place Schnabel was awarded the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award for his contribution to the cinematic arts.
The film, Schnabel’s newest movie since 2018’s Oscar-nominated portrait of Vincent Van Gogh, At Eternity’s Gateis an adaptation of Nick Tosches’ 2002 novel. Isaac performs twin roles: New York creator Tosches in the twenty first century and Dante Alighieri in the 14th century. Nick is employed by a mafia don to substantiate after which steal a priceless manuscript mentioned to be Dante’s authentic Divine Comedy in his personal hand, dragging Nick into an underworld he is each repulsed by and complicit in. The movie transgresses time to point out how greed, religion, want and the starvation for that means repeat themselves.
Nick’s seek for the masterwork reveals his true id to himself as Nick and as Dante. Part muscular crime film, half religious odyssey and half tragicomedy, the movie turns a thriller a few stolen e book right into a meditation on immortality and the transcendental energy of artwork and love.
Schnabel and Louise Kugelberg tailored Tosches’ novel. Producers on the pic are Jon Kilik, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Olmo Schnabel, Gabriele Bebe Moratti, Vito Schnabel and Julian Schnabel.
Julian Schnabel was just lately honored at the Texas Film Awards, which lauds filmmakers and expertise who’ve ties to the Lone Star State. Schnabel, although a Brooklyn native, grew up in the browsing border city of Brownsville, TX, a spot that impressed him as each a painter and a filmmaker.
CAA Media Finance and WME Independent co-repped home with WME additionally dealing with worldwide gross sales.
