Stanley Tucci hasn’t written and directed a film since 2007’s Blind Date, as the acting side of his career has kept him busy. But he’s headed back behind the camera for a drama called Final Portrait. And Tucci has hired Geoffrey Rush to star.
Tucci is once more pulling double duty for the film, which will chronicle the friendship between American art critic James Lord who agrees to sit for a portrait by his friend, noted Swiss painter Alberto Giacometti. Unfortunately, though the two knew each other socially, Lord wasn’t quite prepared for the demanding nature of the artist at work and the experience tests their relationship to the limit.
The script has been adapted from Lord’s writing on the experience, A Giacometti Portrait, and Tucci’s producers will be busy rustling up distributors at the Berlin International Film Festival this week.
Rush is, as ever, a man in demand. He recently signed on to play composer Lionel Bart in Vadim Jean’s musical biopic of the man and he’ll next be seen in indie drama** The Daughter**. He also plays Ra in Alex Proyas’ Gods Of Egypt, which is set to arrive in the UK on February 12, 2016.