Scott Ellis Set for Big Screen Debut with ‘Taravella’

American stage director (Off-Broadway and Broadway) and television director (Weeds) Scott Ellis will be receiving his big silver screen break this coming autumn on a project that has been shepherded by some first time producers (in Victoria Wisdom and John Miranda), new kid on the block production co. of Winchester Capital Management, and will constitute a comeback of sorts for Artificial Intelligence: AI and The Chumscrubber producer Bonnie Curtis.

Written by Tom Sierchio (whose last credit comes via Untamed Heart – the 1993 pic starring Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei), Taravella mixes the rom com with a supernatural element — perhaps in the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife – but with younger leads. I get the sense that this is the sort of project that was circulating in the system and needed a couple of impassioned folks in the biz that are seeing the project with another set of eyes. The logline reads as such: “a love story about a beautiful but eccentric young woman with amnesia who falls out of the sky one day into the life of a young man, who struggles to uncover the mystery behind her inexplicable appearance.”