De Niro è The Comedian per Mike Newell
Riportiamo qui sul nostro mulholland tal estasiante, magnifica, esaltante notizi(on)a.
Dopo la dipartita di Sean Penn in cabina di regia, si torna a parlare di questo progetto, The Comedian, film con De Niro in quel che si preannuncia uno strepitoso, epocale one man show, per la direzione di Mike Newell, subentrato, stando alle maggiori testate giornalistiche cinematografiche di oltreoceano, appunto,dietro la macchina da presa.
Le riprese, inoltre, sempre rispetto a quanto leggiamo, dovrebbero partire abbastanza presto in quel di New York. La data è fissata per Novembre, infatti.
Rispettivamente da Variety e da Deadline, citiamo, copia-incollando, quanto attestato dalle rassegne stampa di entrambi i giornali online.
Dave McNary
Film Reporter@Variety_DMcNary
Mike Newell has come on board to direct Robert De Niro’s drama “The Comedian,” based on Art Linson’s script, with plans to begin production in New York in November.
Linson will produce with Courtney Solomon and Atmosphere’s Mark Canton, who are both financing.
De Niro will play a Don Rickles-style standup comic who specializes in insults, with the script’s standup material written by Comedy Central Roast mainstay Jeffrey Ross.
De Niro will be seen later this year in Warner Bros.’ “The Intern” opposite Anne Hathaway and in David O. Russell’s “Joy,” playing the father of Jennifer Lawrence’s character.
Newell’s credits include “Great Expectations,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and “Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.”
De Niro is repped by CAA. Newell is repped by WME and Independent Talent.
The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.
EXCLUSIVE: The Comedian, an Art Linson-scripted drama that Robert De Niro has been sweet on for years, has come together with Mike Newell at the helm. I’m told that the film is now a reality, with De Niro in final talks to start production in early November in New York. Linson will produce the film along with Courtney Solomon and Atmosphere’s Mark Canton, both of whom are providing the financing.
De Niro, who played the iconic stalker/aspiring comedian Rupert Pupkin in The King Of Comedy, here plays an accomplished insult comic, on the order of a Don Rickles (with whom De Niro starred in Casino). The project has been in the works for several years, and the stand-up material was written by Jeffrey Ross, who provides consistently bright spots in the Friars and celebrity roasts on Comedy Central. Linson previously wroteWhat Just Happened?, the Hollywood saga that starred De Niro.
De Niro has been in the middle of a productive patch. He next stars alongside Anne Hathaway as the title character in The Intern, the new film by writer-director Nancy Meyers. Hands Of Stone, the film he stars in with Edgar Ramirez for director Jonathan Jacubowicz, just sold for a bundle to The Weinstein Company during the Cannes Film Festival, and he recently wrapped the Scott Mann-directed heist film Bus 657, and the David O Russell-directed Joy, with Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. He’s currently starring with Zac Efron in the Dan Mazer-directed comedy Dirty Grandpa.
De Niro is also coming off a close of his Tribeca Film Festival that featured a restored version of Goodfellas, his masterpiece collaboration with Martin Scorsese. De Niro is repped by CAA, Newell by WME and Independent Talent.
