Kim Rossi Stuart returns to crime for Placido
In November, Michele Placido will start shooting a film on the life of Renato Vallanzasca, a notorious criminal who terrorized Milan in the 1970s.
The news was announced by Osvaldo De Santis, president and CEO of 20th Century Fox Italia, which will produce the film (whose working title is Il Fiore del Male) with Elide Melli. "It will be expensive, but we’re encouraged by the success of Romanzo Criminale [+see also:
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Vallanzasca, known as "handsome Renè" for his indisputable appeal, will be played Kim Rossi Stuart, who starred in Romanzo Criminale, which Placido also directed.
"I met him, and he has incredible charisma,” said Rossi Stuart of Vallanzasca, who worked on the script with the director. "He is intelligent, articulate. A man who understood and anticipated the role of the media. If Vallanzasca had been born in different circumstances, if he’d had different opportunities, who knows what he could have become. Instead, he’s spent 38 of his 58 years in jail."
(Translated from Italian)
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