The project is a UK-Belgium-France-Italy co-production based on a bestselling book Author: Michael Rosser
Beautiful Boy and
The Broken Circle Breakdown director Felix van Groeningen is to co-write and co-direct a feature based on Paolo Cognetti’s Italian bestseller
The Eight Mountains with Charlotte Vandermeersch for Rome-based production outfit Wildside.
It will be the first move into directing for Belgian actress Vandermeersch who has had roles in Groeningen’s
Belgica,
The Misfortunates and
With Friends Like These.
The Eight Mountains aims to shoot in the Italian Alps, Turin and Nepal this summer. No cast is attached yet.
The project is being set up as a Italy-Belgium-France-UK co-production with Belgium’s Menuetto and Rufus, France’s Pyramide Productions and the UK’s Elastic Film. The latter is run by Louis Tisné, who co-produced Ali Abbasi’s