Gary Oldman joins Paolo Sorrentino's next feature, currently filming in Italy

Paolo Sorrentino's next untitled feature which is currently filming in Italy, has added Gary Oldman to the cast.

Production started in June and filming has been taking place between Naples and Capri.

Announced during the Venice Film Festival, the two Academy Award-winners will collaborate for the currently untitled project, which is being produced by Lorezeno Miele for Fremeantle's The Apartment Pictures. Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent, Sorrentino for Numero 10 and Ardavan Safaee for Pathe also produce.

Nello Mascia and Biagio Izzo also join the cast. The previously announced include: Celeste Dalla Porta, Silvia Degrandi, Isabella Ferrari, Lorenzo Gleijeses, Peppe Lanzetta, Silvio Orlando, Luisa Ranieri, Stefania Sandrelli and Alfonso Santagata. 

The 10th feature from Sorrentino takes him to his native Naples again, telling the story of a woman named Partenope “who bears the name of her city but is neither siren nor myth.”

In Greek mythology Partenope appears in classical literature and art as one of the sirens who taunted Odysseus. When she drowned, her body washed up on the shore of Naples, and was named after her. 

In Sorrentino’s film, however, she’s a woman born in 1950 whose “long life embodies the full repertoire of human existence: youth’s lightheartedness and its demise, classical beauty and its inexorable permutations, pointless and impossible loves, stale flirtations and dizzying passion, nighttime kisses on Capri, flashes of joy and persistent suffering, real and invented fathers, endings, and new beginnings.”

The director added: “Together with a host of other characters: men and women observed and loved, their waves of melancholy and disappointment, their impatience and despair, their anguish at never again laughing at an elegant man who trips and falls on a city street. All of this is accompanied by the passage of time, that most faithful of boyfriends. And by Naples, who charms and enchants, who shouts and laughs, and who knows just how to hurt you.”

The film is an Italian-French co-production written and directed by Sorrentino. Douglas Urbanski serves as executive producer.