Joker 2 and Johnny Depp’s Modi are among Venice hopefuls
The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival are going more than submissions and some large names are due to make appearances this year.
2024’s Venice Film Festival is not far away. Last year’s occasion was one particular that was slightly reduce down due to the ongoing strikes that had befallen Hollywood and prevented a quantity of actors from attending for the promotion of their films. The films that screened final year incorporated David Fincher’s The Killer, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, Ava DuVernay’s Origin, Michael Mann’s Ferrari and Bradley Cooper’s Maestro. The line-up for films out of competitors featured such large names as Woody Allen, Wes Anderson, William Friedkin, Richard Linklater and Roman Polanski.
The 81st Annual Venice Film Festival is set for August 28 to September 7. Variety is reporting that among the films that are getting rumored for screenings is the Todd Phillips stick to-up to the Joaquin Phoenix reimagining of DC’s Clown Prince of Crime. Joker: Folie à Deux, which co-stars Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, is stated to be an quick choice for the schedule. Phillips was a producer on A Star Is Born, and he and the writer normally wrote this sequel with Lady Gaga in thoughts. As far as it becoming a musical, Phillips stated he never ever believed of it as one particular, but he admits music is an important element. He stated he normally described Arthur as possessing music in him, which was also essential to the initially film.
Another notable film that is due for Venice is the Johnny Depp film Modi. Depp currently produced his return to the festival circuit and the public eye when his French film, Jeanne Du Barry, debuted at Cannes. For Modi, Depp tends to make the venture behind the camera as director. According to Variety, Modi is a “biopic of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani starring Italy’s Riccardo Scamarcio as the bad boy painter and sculptor, who worked mainly in France and became famous for the groundbreaking modern style of his portraits and nudes. Al Pacino plays international art collector Maurice Gangnat.”
Other titles that are getting eyed for the schedule are Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas biopic, Maria, which stars Angelina Jolie, Luca Guadagnino’s William S. Burroughs adaptation Queer, that options Daniel Craig as the lead, the Jon Watts action-comedy, Wolfs, with George Clooney and Brad Pitt, as nicely as Ron Howard’s survival thriller Eden, starring Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney, Vanessa Kirby and Daniel Brühl.
