Italian director
Matteo Garrone said Wednesday he is still looking to cast a
young Italian actor to play Pinocchio in his next film project.
Garrone, who was at the Giffoni Film Festival to receive
the Truffaut Prize, said he has held auditions in Catania,
Naples and Rome, and that the character won't have a specific
regional accent.
The director said the shoot is scheduled to begin next
spring, with an expected theatre release in 2018.
The Roman filmmaker who made a breakthrough with his 2008
movie Gomorrah based on the book by Roberto Saviano about the
Naples Camorra mafia said he's related to the city of Naples by
blood, as his grandmother is Neapolitan.
"There's also a bond due to all the opportunities that
Naples offers in terms of faces and personalities," he said.
Garrone has filmed The Embalmer, Reality, and The Tale of
Tales as well as Gomorrah in Naples.
"I'm always happy to go to a place as richly evocative as
Naples - you just have to try to impose order amid the chaos,"
he said.
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