I’m not sure if motherhood entered the picture, but it has been a long time since we saw Sofia Coppola behind the camera. Having locked up distribution deals in several territories, she and Focus Features appear to be fully immersed in the pre-production stages of her fourth feature film. She has already found her cast in Elle Fanning and career comeback kid Stephen Dorff, they have the shooting dates in place and she definitely has her sights on a specific sight. If you look at her last two pictures, I think it’s safe to say that Coppola is all about location, location location. I’m not sure how much revenue Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont would lose to a film shoot, but its safe to say that they will get some great publicity from the event.
Somewhere centers on a bad-boy actor stumbling through a life of excess at the celebrity locale, the Chateau Marmont. With an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter, he is forced to reexamine his life. Filming will take place in L.A. and Italy in June and July.
Sofia is producing with brother Roman Coppola and G. Mac Brown via American Zoetrope. Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos and Paul Rassam are exec producing.