Anyway, it appears that he is in talks to star in THIS MUST BE THE PLACE for director Paolo Sorrentino (IL DIVO), making his English-language debut. The film is about a retired rocker who gets bored and so decides to go out and hunt down his father’s executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal hiding in the US.
Hopefully Penn won’t be morose-imus maximus in this thing because I’d love to see him do something else.. But I wouldn’t bet against it. I mean we’ve got a murdered father and war crimes. You’d have more hope finding comedy in a Friedberg and Seltzer movie. Aha! Zing!