Filming of Modigliani film set to get underway in Europe subsequent spring.

Hollywood star Johnny Depp is to direct a brand new movie about Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani which he’ll co-produce with Al Pacino and Barry Navidi, in keeping with The Hollywood Reporter.

The film will deal with the turbulent lifetime of the Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920) who is well known for his portraits that includes elongated necks and faces.

Tailored from the play by Dennis McIntyre, Depp’s movie can be set in Paris in 1916. Manufacturing is scheduled to start out in Europe in spring 2023 and the forged is predicted to be unveiled quickly.

The film will chart a 48-hour “turning level” in Modigliani’s life, “finally solidifying his fame as an inventive legend”, in keeping with The Hollywood Reporter.

Depp, 59, mentioned he’s “extremely honoured” to be making a movie about Modigliani who endured “a lifetime of nice hardship, however eventual triumph — a universally human story all viewers can determine with.”

The challenge marks a return to directing for Depp, 25 years after he directed The Courageous wherein he starred with Marlon Brando.

The transfer comes as he will get his profession again on monitor following his victory within the latest high-profile defamation trial towards his former spouse Amber Heard.

Born in 1884, Modigliani spent his youth in Italy, learning the artwork of antiquity and the Renaissance, earlier than shifting in 1906 to Paris, the place he got here into contact with different artists together with Pablo Picasso.

His time within the French capital was marred by poverty and unwell well being, compounded by his use of alcohol and medicines, and he was largely underrated as an artist in his lifetime.

On 24 January 1920 Modigliani died of tubercular meningitis, aged 35.

The day after he died, his closely pregnant companion Jeanne Hébuterne took her personal life, aged 21, forsaking the couple’s 14-month-old youngster, additionally known as Jeanne, who would go on to write down the biography Modigliani: Man and Fable in 1958.