Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders, Happy as Lazzaro, La Chimera) will direct a film adaptation of Italo Calvino's 1957 novel The Baron in the Trees. Deadline reported that in the wake of their Cannes Best Director-winning Fatherland helmed by Paweł Pawlikowski, Italian producers Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli and their Our Films banner are teaming on the project with Rohrwacher, who will adapt and direct the Viareggio Prize-winning book.
The Baron in the Trees "follows a young Baron, little Cosimo, who is bulled by his older sister and tired of his distinguished role. He decides to climb a tree and never set foot on the ground again," Deadline noted.
Rohrwacher is currently in production on the film adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's novel Three Incestuous Sisters with Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley, and Josh O'Connor starring.