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FELLINI BLACK AND WHITE
🕑 Added 2020-05-21 18:41:08 +0000 UTCFELLINI BLACK AND WHITE
Prod Co: Mad Chance
Dates: 2020
Location: Los Angeles
Budget: $5M
Execs: Executive: Vanessa Humphrey
Writer (Current): Henry Bromell
Producer: ANDREW LAZAR
Director: Andrew Levitas
Cast: Talent: Johnny Depp [FEDERICO FELLINI: Attached], Jamie Foxx [VALENTINE: Offer], Penelope Cruz [GUILETTA MASINA: Attached], Alexander Skarsgard [MAX: Offer], Noah Centineo [RICKY NELSON: Offer], Peter Dinklage [BERNARD STEINGLOWER: In Discussions]
Logline: When famed Italian director (and well-known womanizer) Federico Fellini comes to Los Angeles to accept an Academy Award, he
ends up repairing his relationship with his wife after a mind-expanding twenty-four hours with the forefathers of the Beatnik
generation.
Roles:
[FEDERICO FELLINI]
Lead Male (37)
Italian, tall, broad-shouldered, massive man with large, expressive eyes and sensitive hands. He is selfish, self-involved, but a boy-genius. He is the famous writer/ director of Variety Lights (1950), The White Sheik (1952), I Vitelloni (1953), La Strada (1954), Il Bidone (1955), and Nights of Cabiria (1957).
Attached Johnny Depp
[BETTY]
Lead Female (27 - 29)
A Los Angeles veterinarian. She is beautiful and organic. She rides the bus as a sort of protest against of the vast amounts of pollution produced by automobiles.
[GUILETTA MASINA]
Lead Female (36)
Fellini's Italian-born wife. She is perky gamine with a quick, bright smile of a clown. An actress, she has appeared in four of Fellini's movies. She is very jealous if his flirtations with other women and finally snaps. She goes off on her own and winds up befriending RICKY NELSON before finding her way back to her husband at the Academy Awards ceremony.
Attached Penelope Cruz
[DORE]
Supporting Male (23 - 27)
A publicist assigned by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to take care of Fellini while he's in Los Angeles.
[TAZIO]
Supporting Male (40 - 49)
Fellini's small, anxiety-ridden producer. He is a Catholic and surprised when Fellini doesn't show for the big dinner at the DGA.
[VALENTINE]
Supporting Male (30 - 39)
African-American, wiry. He's an amazing trumpet player, but like many jazz greats of the time, he is a heroin addict.
Offer Jamie Foxx
[MAX]
Supporting Male (20 - 35)
Strong, slender, and athletic. Max was in Italy during the war, but now lives and surfs in Los Angeles.
Offer Alexander Skarsgard
[RICKY NELSON]
Supporting Male (16 - 19)
The beautiful singer/actor, he and Giulietta meet and go for a drive but nothing happens and they merely fall asleep, innocently, together. Later, he introduces her to his family - since she has nowhere else to go at that moment. They go driving again and he arrives with her at the Academy Awards Ceremony. But he leaves with Betty
Offer Noah Centineo
[TUNILLO PINELLI]
Supporting Male (38)
Neurotic screenwriter of LA SCALA.
[BERNARD STEINGLOWER]
Supporting Male (43 - 47)
Betty's boyfriend, and a cook at local jazz club. He's balding, and very short. An existentialist, he's taken a vow of silence, and has only ever communicated with Betty by the written word. Your basic beatnik, he always wears the prerequisite black turtleneck over his dirty apron.
In Discussions Peter Dinklage
[LUIGI LURASCHI45]
Cameo Male (43 - 47)
A Paramount Studio executive.
[ANDRE ZINN]
Cameo Male (33 - 37)
African-American, lean, well-dressed, eyes always hidden behind dark glasses as he smokes a cigarette. He's another extraordinary musician of the time, but when he's not playing the saxophone, he's using heroin.
Comments
$5mil for such a cast? impressive
