Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher, recognized for her magical realist works “The Wonders,” “Happy as Lazzaro” and “La Chimera” — all of which competed at Cannes Movie Pageant — is about to direct a function movie adaptation of Italo Calvino’s coming-of-age fable “The Baron in the Trees.”
One of the crucial celebrated books in twentieth century Italian literature, “The Baron in the Trees” was revealed in 1957 and revolves round a 12-year-old baron named Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, who after a dispute together with his father, climbs up a tree and stays there for the remainder of his life. It’s the late Calvino’s bestselling work of fiction alongside his 1979 novel “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.”
Rohrwacher’s “Baron in the Trees” adaptation is being produced by Rome-based Our Films, the Mediawan-owned shingle operated by producers Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli. They lead-produced Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Fatherland,” which simply received the perfect director award in Cannes in a tie with Spanish helmers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi for his or her “La Bola Negra.” Mubi shall be releasing “Fatherland” in U.S. theaters this fall.
In 2022, Mieli secured the rights to the Italo Calvino traditional from The Wylie Company after years of pursuit.
“The image I am most tied to with this story is not so much the boy in the tree; but the adult man who spends his entire life living in a tree,” Mieli advised Selection on the time. “The man who kept his promise; his rigor in being disobedient.”
Rohrwacher is at present capturing an adaptation of U.S. writer Audrey Niffenegger’s novel “Three Incestuous Sisters” with a stellar solid comprising Dakota Johnson, Josh O’Connor, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley and Isabella Rossellini, plus Mick Jagger in a cameo function. The buzzy movie is predicated on Niffenegger’s illustrated gothic novel about three sisters residing in isolation whose relationship is disrupted by the arrival of a lighthouse keeper’s son. The movie is believed to be largely, if not completely, silent.
Rohrwacher will not be anticipated to start out capturing “Baron in the Trees” till the second half of 2027.
Our Movies and Mubi — which have a co-production, financing and distribution pact in place — will subsequent be launching Felix Van Groeningen’s romantic drama “Let Love In,” which sees the distinguished Belgian auteur re-team with Italian actor Luca Marinelli (“The Eight Mountains”). The Italian-Belgian co-production is tipped to bow on the upcoming Venice Movie Pageant.
Deadline was first to report the information that Rohrwacher will direct “The Baron in the Trees”
