2 Oscar-winners are about to join forces. Gary Oldman, known for his work in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy and the Harry Potter films, among countless other roles, is teaming up with Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, for Sorrentino’s newest, and yet untitled, feature. 

Announced in Venice, the film will be produced by Lorezeno Miele for The Apartment Pictures, a part of Fremantle.

As the Hollywood Reporter States, the film is to be set in Naples, following a woman named Partenope, “who bears the name of her city but is neither siren nor myth.”

Greek mythology states that Parthenope was originally a siren who threw himself into the sea after failing to gain the affection of the Greek hero Odysseus, winding up on a rock in Naples. However, the film will follow a slightly different take, taking her as a woman born in 1950 whose “long life embodies the full repertoire of human existence: youth’s lightheartedness and its demise, classical beauty and its inexorable permutations, pointless and impossible loves, stale flirtations and dizzying passion, nighttime kisses on Capri, flashes of joy and persistent suffering, real and invented fathers, endings, and new beginnings.”

Alongside Oldman, the cast includes Celeste Dalla Porta, Silvia Degrandi, Isabella Ferrari, and other cast newcomers Nello Mascia and Biagio Izzo. 

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