Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment may link project
NEW YORK -- Gabriele Muccino, the Italian conductor and Will Smith cooperator, is setting up a new project.
Muccino volition direct "What I Know About Love," a plastic film described as a contemporary "Kramer vs. Kramer."
Like that 1970s hands saga, Muccino said that "Love" will seek to explore the wounds of divorce and single parenthood.
"It's the write up of a family's collapse, but with the complexity that relationships have today," Muccino aforementioned. "It's a different populace now, one that I think is more exposed and more destructive somehow."
The director is known for exploring the difficulties of romantic couplings as well as parent-child relationships.
Muccino will write "Love" with "Sex and the City" penman Liz Tuccillo, with whom he collaborated on his latest propose, the Mediaset-produced "Four Single Fathers." "Love" likely will be produced by Muccino's Indiana Prods. banner.
The picture potentially too could involve Overbrook Entertainment, Smith and James Lassiter's Columbia-set production company with which Muccino made his two most recent films, "The Pursuit of Happyness" and the upcoming "Seven Pounds," both of which star Smith. (Columbia, by the bye, also made "Kramer vs. Kramer.")
The Italy-born Muccino has moved fluidly between borders during his career. Although his past tense two movies have been English-language, U.S.-set tales, he has a background in Italian cinema, directing and writing the middle-class dramatic event "Ricordati Di Me" as well as "L'ultimo Bacio," the Italian film that became the basis for Tony Goldwyn's 2006 Zach Braff starrer "The Last Kiss."
Muccino's "Fathers," an indie feature that doubles as a pilot for Italian television, crossed borders to tell the story of Italian workforce who were once marital to and had children with American women.
"The Italian in New York tends to import a cultural system, and the interrogative sentence is how, with American children, he can come up the correct way to communicate with American children," Muccino aforesaid of that film.
Muccino also has the immigrant tale "Man & Wife" in development at Universal.
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