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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa and Gerard Butler are set to star in the crime thriller In The Hand Of Dante with Oscar-nominee Julian Schnabel directing. The film is currently in production in Italy and recently landed an Interim Agreement from SAG-AFTRA allowing it to film during the SAG strike.
Based on the novel by Nick Tosches, the story revolves around when the original manuscript of the Divine Comedy, emerges in the clutches of a black-market smuggling ring in the dangerous underbelly of New York City, weary scholar Nick is called by the mob to authenticate it.
Overwhelmed by temptation, Nick defies the mafia and steals the manuscript in a frenzied bid to have it all. He follows a dark and violent path from a metaphorical Hell into Paradise with his love Giulietta, while a parallel tale unfolds: the odyssey of Dante himself, a man who — trapped in a loveless marriage with Gemma and bolstered only by his mentorship under an austere intellectual — escapes to Sicily and creates his greatest work, immortalizing his lost love, Beatrice.
Nick and Dante’s timelines weave separate paths and yet the two men are inextricably linked — both lose themselves chasing love, beauty, and the very promise of the divine.
Producers include Jon Kilik, Francesco Melzi d’eril for MeMo Films and Olmo Schnabel for TWIN Productions.
Martin Scorsese will executive produce alongside DreamCrew, Screen Capital / Screen One, and Tribune Pictures, with Isaac (through his production company Mad Gene Media) and Schnabel also executive producing.
WME Independent and CAA Media Finance are handling domestic sales and WME Independent is handling international sales.
Schnabel is repped by CAA. Isaac is represented by WME, The Lede Company, and attorney Mitch Smelkinson; Momoa by WME; Butler by CAA and Alan Siegel Entertainment, Scorsese is repped by WME, LBI Entertainment, and 42West.
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