‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ EP Niels Juul Shopping Cecchi Gori Projects in Cannes (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Killers of the Flower Moon” executive producer Niels Juul is in Cannes with several projects based on IP from the vault of Italy’s storied Cecchi Gori movie company that include a remake of the Dino Risi-directed classic “Il Sorpasso” and “Kafka,” a script about the turbulent love life of Franz Kafka by John Briley (“Gandhi”).
The IP and some other assets of the movie company that once dominated Italy’s film industry and collapsed in the mid-1990s were acquired late last year by a group of Italian investors under the new management of Rome-based CEO Federico Canfora and U.S-based Javier Balliero Madrid.
Madrid is president of the new company, which is backing a partial relaunch of the Cecchi Gori brand, which is behind such Oscar-winners as “Life Is Beautiful,” “Mediterraneo” and “Il Postino.” They have a producing agreement with Los Angeles-based Juul, who is a former Cecchi Gori Pictures CEO.
He has been building a slate that is a mix of Italian and English-language films. The most advanced project in the pipeline of the newly formed outfit is “All for One,” a contemporary adaptation of Alexander Dumas’ “Three Musketeers,” originally penned by U.S.
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