We’ve been wondering out loud for a while now who would distrbute Francis Ford Coppola’s newest project. Wonder no more. Today, Sony Pictures Classics that they’ve acquired Youth Without Youth for a Fall 2007 release.
Based on the novella by Romanian author and intellectual Mircea Eliade. This stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, an elderly professor whose mysterious rejuvenation heightens his intelligence and whose apparent immortality makes him a target for the Nazis in this World War II-era parable. Becoming a fugitive, he is pursued through far-flung locations including Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India. The also stars Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Andre M. Hennicke, Marcel Iures, and introduces Alexandra Pirici. Son Roman Coppola directed the second unit.
The move shows that SPC is flexing a little muscle – slightly more aggressive in finding material for their slate and on Coppola’s part, it announces that the filmmaker (who hasn't made a film in more than a decade) was perhaps looking for the right shoe to fit. This debunks rumors of Coppola going over to Tom Cruise’s United Artists.
