‘Chicken For Linda’ Filmmakers Line Up ‘My Stupid Intentions’

“Rooster for Linda!” administrators Sébastien Laudenbach and Chiara Malta will follow-up their a number of award-winning characteristic with a mortality-themed animal story “My Silly Intentions.”

Tailored from a 2023 e book from Italian creator Bernardo Zannoni, the decidedly grownup novel reads because the autobiography of a beech marten born into poverty then raised right into a harsh and uncaring world.

“It is a e book of extraordinary cruelty,” Malta tells Selection. “It’s a really darkish story that offers with loss of life and the emergence of consciousness within the animal kingdom. As a result of with consciousness comes nostalgia, reminiscence, the worry of mortality, and the attention of being finite. With it comes loss, grief and chaos – and that is the problem [Sébastien Laudenbach and I] have set for ourselves.”

“By adapting a e book with such intense cruelty for a younger viewers, the aim, primarily, is to speak to youngsters about loss of life,” Malta continues. “We need to take this stunning e book — one which offers with so many philosophical questions and excessive degree ideas — and make it accessible for probably the most noble viewers of all.” 

Now in early improvement, the Franco-Italian manufacturing will reunite “Rooster for Linda!” outfits Miyu Productions and Dolce Vita Movies, whereas filmmakers are at the moment testing out animation kinds that blend 3D instruments with a sensory, 2D aesthetic. With a pilot date set for 2026, the filmmakers hope to launch manufacturing shortly thereafter.

“Rooster for Linda!” received greatest characteristic at Annecy Intl. Animated Movie Competition in 2023 and greatest animated movie on the César Awards in 2024.

Within the nearer time period, the artistic — and home — companions are busy with particular person initiatives. As Laudenbach now oversees manufacturing on his Georges Bizet adaptation “Love Is a Gypsy Youngster: A Carmen Story,” Malta is ready to shoot a live-action, Italian-language remake of the 2023 Belgian comedy “The (Ex)perience of Love,” with Rome-based Wildside producing. 

“This type of remake is a little bit of a big gamble,” Malta says. “However [original directors Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni] belief me as a result of all of us have very sturdy creative visions. They’ve a whole lot of fantasy and creativeness, and so they belief me to not merely adapt it [in a superficial way].”

Malta can be lining as much as adapt creator Gianrico Carofiglio’s Nineteen Eighties-set novel “Three O’Clock within the Morning,” which follows a father and his epileptic son over the course of 48 hours in Marseille, with manufacturing set start within the South of France later this yr.

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