Critics hated his last American film, Playing for Keeps, and nobody went to see it, but it looks like director Gabriele Muccino will soon have a chance to redeem himself.
READ MY REVIEW OF PLAYING FOR KEEPS
Voltage Productions has chosen Muccino to direct Fathers And Daughters, about a Pulitzer-winning writer who grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown. Much later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
After his big success with The Last Kiss, L’Ultimo Bacio, Muccino went on to make films with Will Smith, The Pursuit Of Happyness and Seven Pounds in America and then bombed with Gerard Butler and Jennifer Biel in Playing For Keeps.
Playing for Keeps was far from the worst movie I’ve ever seen, and L’Ultimo Bacio is one of my least favorite Italian movies, so I am not exactly in line with most critics on the subject of Gabriele Muccino movies, but let’s hope he has a better experience with Fathers and Daughters. After making Playing For Keeps he said, “I Understand why Woody Allen’s making movies in Europe.”
READ MY REVIEW OF L’ULTIMO BACIO
READ ABOUT HOW MUCCINO SAID HOLLYWOOD SCREWED HIM MAKING PLAYING FOR KEEPS
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