Saturday, 16 August 2008

"Happyness" director in "Love" with divorce drama

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Italian film producer Gabriele Muccino, who directed Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness," is developing a film described as a modern-day "Kramer vs. Kramer."





Like that 1970s custody saga, Muccino said that "What I Know About Love" volition seek to explore the wounds of divorce and single parenthood.





"It's the story of a family's break down, but with the complexity that relationships have today," Muccino aforesaid. "It's a different world now, i that I think is more open and more destructive somehow."





Known for exploring the difficulties of romanticist couplings as well as parent-child relationships, he will write "Love" with "Sex and the City" scribe Liz Tuccillo.





Muccino reunited with Smith for the upcoming "Seven Pounds," which Columbia volition release later this year. Smith plays a self-destructive IRS agent.





Muccino's earlier films included the middle-class dramatic event "Ricordati Di Me" as well as "L'ultimo Bacio," which became the basis for the 2006 Zach Braff drama "The Last Kiss."





/Hollywood Reporter









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