Terry Gilliam Biblical Comedy Heads To EFM With Andrea Iervolino

EXCLUSIVE: Terry Gilliam‘s biblical comedy Carnival: At The Finish Of Days has been boarded by prolific Italian producer and entrepreneur Andrea Iervolino, whose credit embody Ferrari, Maserati: The Brothers and To The Bone.

Iervolino is because of produce and assist finance the movie and is heading to the European Movie Market in Berlin this month to debate the mission with potential consumers and can look so as to add a gross sales agent whereas there. The intention is to shoot in Italy as quickly as April.

Based on Iervolino, the mission will replicate Gilliam’s customary ambition, scope and artistic imaginative and prescient. He describes it to us as “an epic and visionary work” and a “live-action movie that makes unprecedented use of CGI”: “Carnival is an awfully advanced movie for an unbiased manufacturing. It’s a mission that blends live-action aesthetics with an unprecedented quantity of CGI. It’s, for sure, one of the costly unbiased initiatives ever undertaken in cinematic historical past. Nevertheless, I firmly consider it’s a magnificent murals that the world deserves to see.”

Iervolino will produce with Gilliam’s daughter Amy Gilliam from a script by the Brazil, Worry And Loathing In Las Vegas and 12 Monkeys filmmaker and Christopher Brett Bailey.

In earlier press, former Python Gilliam has described the movie thusly: “It is a easy story of God wiping out humanity for fucking up his lovely backyard Earth. There’s just one character who’s making an attempt to avoid wasting humanity and that’s Devil, as a result of with out humanity he’s misplaced his job and he’s an everlasting character and so to reside with no job is horrible. So he finds some younger individuals and he tries to persuade God that these younger persons are the brand new Adam and Eve. God nonetheless will get to wipe out humanity. It’s a comedy.”

In an interview final 12 months, Gilliam famous Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges, Adam Driver and Jason Momoa as amongst solid being lined up for the mission. Depp — who beforehand appeared in Gilliam’s Worry and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and The Imaginarium of Physician Parnassus (2009) in addition to a number of movies by producer Iervolino — is about to play Devil, who in a reversal of roles, finds himself making an attempt to avoid wasting humanity within the face of a punitive God who can be performed by Bridges. The castings aren’t but official or signed, nevertheless.

Gilliam’s final movie was 2018 pic The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a movie he tried to make for greater than twenty years. Let’s see if Carnival can come collectively in faster order.

Iervolino’s The Andrea Iervolino Firm not too long ago accomplished filming on Maserati: The Brothers, starring Jessica Alba, Anthony Hopkins, Andy Garcia and Michele Morrone.