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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has snapped up In nan Hand of Dante from Oscar nominated filmmaker Julian Schnabel.
The pic which features a large formed of headliners including 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 made its world premiere astatine nan Venice Film Festival past twelvemonth wherever Schnabel was awarded nan Cartier Glory to nan Filmmaker Award for his publication to nan cinematic arts.
The movie, Schnabel’s latest movie since 2018’s Oscar nominated image of Vincent Van Gogh, At Eternity’s Gate, is an adjustment of Nick Tosches’ 2002 novel of the aforesaid name, In the Hand of Dante. Primetime Emmy nominee Isaac plays dual roles that of New York writer Tosches successful nan 21st period and Dante Alighieri in nan 14th century. Nick is hired by a mafia don to corroborate and past bargain a priceless manuscript said to be Dante’s original Divine Comedy successful his own hand, dragging Nick into an underworld he’s some repulsed by and complicit in. The movie transgresses clip to show really greed, faith, desire, and nan hunger for meaning repetition themselves. Nick’s hunt for this masterwork reveals his existent personality to himself arsenic Nick and as Dante. Part muscular crime movie, portion belief odyssey and portion tragicomedy, nan movie turns a thriller astir a stolen book into a meditation connected immortality and nan transcendental power of art and love.
Schnabel and Louise Kugelberg adapted Tosches’ novel. Producers connected nan pic are Jon Kilik, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Olmo Schnabel, Gabriele Bebe Moratti, Vito Schnabel and Schnabel.
Schnabel was precocious honored astatine nan Texas Film Awards which lauds those filmmakers and talent who person ties to nan Lone Star State. Schnabel, though a Brooklyn native, grew up successful nan surfing separator municipality of Brownsville, TX, a spot which inspired him arsenic some a creator and a filmmaker.
WME Independent handled world income connected nan project.
