{"id":472956,"date":"2026-05-29T11:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/472956\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:28:08","slug":"alice-rohrwacher-to-direct-the-baron-in-the-trees-film-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/472956\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Rohrwacher to Direct ‘The Baron in the Trees’ Film Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tItalian auteur Alice Rohrwacher<\/a>, known for her magical realist works \u201cThe Wonders,\u201d \u201cHappy as Lazzaro\u201d and \u201cLa Chimera\u201d \u2014\u00a0 all of which competed at Cannes Film Festival \u2014 is set to direct a feature film adaptation of Italo Calvino<\/a>\u2019s coming-of-age fable \u201cThe Baron in the Trees.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the most celebrated books in 20th century Italian literature, \u201cThe Baron in the Trees\u201d was published in 1957 and revolves around a 12-year-old baron named Cosimo Piovasco di Rond\u00f2, who after a dispute with his father, climbs up a tree and remains there for the rest of his life. It is the late Calvino\u2019s bestselling work of fiction alongside his 1979 novel\u00a0\u201cIf on a Winter\u2019s Night a Traveler.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRohrwacher\u2019s \u201cBaron in the Trees\u201d adaptation is being produced by Rome-based Our Films<\/a>, the Mediawan-owned shingle operated by producers Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli. They lead-produced Pawel Pawlikowski\u2019s\u00a0\u201cFatherland,\u201d which just won the best director award in Cannes in a tie with Spanish helmers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi\u00a0for their \u201cLa Bola Negra.\u201d Mubi will be releasing \u201cFatherland\u201d in U.S. theaters this fall.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2022, Mieli secured the rights to the Italo Calvino classic from The Wylie Agency after years of pursuit.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe image I am most tied to with this story is not so much the boy in the tree; but the adult man who spends his entire life living in a tree,\u201d Mieli told Variety at the time. \u201cThe man who kept his promise; his rigor in being disobedient.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRohrwacher is currently shooting an adaptation of U.S. author Audrey Niffenegger\u2019s novel\u00a0\u201cThree Incestuous Sisters\u201d with a stellar cast comprising Dakota Johnson, Josh O\u2019Connor, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley and Isabella Rossellini, plus Mick Jagger in a cameo role. The buzzy film is based on Niffenegger\u2019s illustrated gothic novel about three sisters living in isolation whose relationship is disrupted by the arrival of a lighthouse keeper\u2019s son. The film is believed to be mostly, if not entirely, silent.<\/p>\n

\n\tRohrwacher is not expected to start shooting \u201cBaron in the Trees\u201d until the second half of 2027.<\/p>\n

\n\tOur Films and Mubi \u2014 which have a co-production, financing and distribution pact in place \u2014 will next be launching Felix Van Groeningen\u2019s romantic drama \u201cLet Love In,\u201d which sees the prominent Belgian auteur re-team with Italian actor Luca Marinelli (\u201cThe Eight Mountains\u201d). The Italian-Belgian co-production is tipped to bow at the upcoming Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline was first to report the news that Rohrwacher will direct \u201cThe Baron in the Trees\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher, known for her magical realist works \u201cThe Wonders,\u201d \u201cHappy as Lazzaro\u201d and \u201cLa Chimera\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[149206,93,61,60,204109,270,204110],"class_list":["post-472956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alice-rohrwacher","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-italo-calvino","tag-movies","tag-our-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}