THE BARON IN THE TREES
TO BE TURNED INTO A BIG SCREEN MOVIE
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| The casting for the movie is underway |
The latest book to get a big screen adaptation is
Italo Calvino's 1957 novel
THE BARON IN THE TREES which tells the adventures of a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life inhabiting an arboreal kingdom. Italian director
Alice Rohrwacher is set to helm according to Variety. The novel brings the story of a young baron,
Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, firstborn of a noble family sadly behind the times. The main story begins with a dispute on June 15,
1767 in the villa of Ombrosa, between an adolescent Cosimo and his father, after which Cosimo, who had quarreled with his father because he had refused to eat a snail soup, climbs the trees of the home garden and promises never to come down again in his entire life.
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