{"id":15432,"date":"2014-07-18T09:19:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T09:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/italian-director-to-shoot-first-film-about-pope\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T09:18:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T09:18:41","slug":"italian-director-to-shoot-first-film-about-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/italian-director-to-shoot-first-film-about-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Director to Shoot First Film About Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-6436 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pldf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Italian director Daniele Luchetti poses during the photocall of La Nostra Vita (Our Life) presented in competition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2010 in Cannes.}}<\/p>\n<p>{{An Italian director best known for telling complex on-screen love stories will begin shooting the first film about Pope Francis in Argentina later this year, Italian radio has reported.}}<\/p>\n<p>Daniele Luchetti said he would start filming the biopic in October, after he had become fascinated by the pontiff&#8217;s openness on various issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to tell the story of (Francis) before he became pope,&#8221; Luchetti told Italy&#8217;s RAI2 public radio.<\/p>\n<p>Asked which actor could play the pope, Luchetti mentioned Argentine star Rodrigo de la Serna, who played Che Guevara&#8217;s friend in the biopic &#8220;The Motorcycle Diaries&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The director is most famous for his film &#8220;My Brother is an Only Child&#8221;, a story of two working class brothers growing up in the 1960s that was shown at the 2007 Cannes film festival.<\/p>\n<p>His short film &#8220;Portaborse&#8221; (The Bag-Carrier) was about political corruption in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The 57-year-old said he also plans to make a television series about the pope.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-6435 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ppo-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Italian director Daniele Luchetti poses during the photocall of La Nostra Vita (Our Life) presented in competition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2010 in Cannes.}} {{An Italian director best known for telling complex on-screen love stories will begin shooting the first film about Pope Francis in Argentina later this year, Italian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000053130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-15432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000053130,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15432.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15432.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15432.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15432.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15432.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton15432.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000053130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15432"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=15432"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=15432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}