Sean Penn is in talks to star in Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s “This Must Be the Place” for Indigo Film and Lucky Red says Variety.
Penn would play a wealthy rock star who becomes bored in his retirement and takes on the quest of finding his father’s executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
Co-written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello, the project would be the “Il Divo” helmer’s English-language feature debut.
No word on production yet but Penn’s commitments to MGM’s “The Three Stooges” and the Valerie Plame drama “Fair Game” which is currently shooting.
