‘My Dinner With Hervé’ Filmmaker Sacha Gervasi Signs With Kaplan/Perrone For Management
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: British-American filmmaker Sacha Gervasi (My Dinner with Hervé) has signed with Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment for management.Gervasi’s latest film, the semi-autobiographical My Dinner with Hervé, took a look at the life of French actor Hervé Villechaize (Peter Dinklage), who came to fame on Fantasy Island before taking his life in 1993, at the age of 50.
Steve Zaillian produced the drama, also starring Jamie Dornan and David Strathairn, for HBO Films. In addition to an Emmy for Outstanding Television Movie, the film was nominated for WGA, PGA, and Critics’ Choice awards.Gervasi previously directed the 2010 documentary Anvil about the Canadian heavy metal band of the same name, which won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary and the News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming, among other accolades.
His first narrative feature was the Oscar-nominated Hitchcock, starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlett Johansson, which told the story of the Psycho filmmaker’s (Hopkins) relationship with his wife, Alma Reville (Mirren).Gervasi also wrote Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film The Terminal, starring Tom Hanks.
He’s currently adapting a new version of the Disney classic Bedknobs and Broomsticks for producers Marc Platt and Adam Siegel, while writing on Seasons 5 and 6 of Netflix’s The Crown.Gervasi, along with Jessica de Rothschild, Hassan Taher and Jim Garavente, founded Portobello Electric in 2020.
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