Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa & Gerard Butler To Lead Julian Schnabel’s ‘In The Hand Of Dante’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa and Gerard Butler are set to starin 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.
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