Transformed and blond: did you recognize Gerard Butler? The hero of 300 changes his look for his new film

It’s filming in the streets of Rome at the moment for the new feature film by Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, At Eternity’s Gate…). For his new film, In The Hand of Dante, the filmmaker brings together Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, and Gerard Butler.

The latter, seen very recently filming in Italy, appears in a new look, almost unrecognizable, with blond hair.

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In The Hand of Dante is a long-announced project, to which Johnny Depp was attached more than 10 years ago. Filming is indeed taking place at the moment, without Johnny Depp in the cast, replaced by Oscar Isaac. For the anecdote, it was Johnny Depp himself who spoke about this project to Julian Schnabel, by bringing him the book (Le Réveil de Buñuel, by Jean-Claude Carrière, published in 2011), from which the film is adapted .

The film focuses on a writer, Nick Tosches, who learns that a manuscript of Dante’s Divine Comedy, stolen from the Vatican, has reappeared in New York. Unable to miss this opportunity, Nick decides to try to authenticate this manuscript and investigate its origins, its journey and that of its author.

This is the 7th feature film by Julian Schnabel, whose films have often focused on the world of art. For example, we owe him films dedicated to the painters Basquiat and Van Gogh (At Eternity’s Gate). Schnabel is himself a painter, and had collaborated with Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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Julian Schnabel’s greatest success in France is the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, with Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze and Anne Consigny, adapted from the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, journalist, who following a sudden stroke is plunged into a deep coma. Presented in Official Competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly won the Best Director Award.