Friday, August 16, 2019

Stefano Sollima: “Giro Colt, an idea western by Sergio Leone; will not pay tribute to Tarantino"


Soldado's director also told some details of the plot

 
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Three years after the first news about it, Stefano Sollima is finally ready to shoot Colt, a western movie that will be shot in English based on an idea by Sergio Leone himself, whose shooting should begin this winter in the snowy mountains of Canada.

Originally conceived as a television series ("but now there are too many around"), Colt takes its inspiration from the pistol gripped by the unnamed protagonist of “Per una pugno di dollars” of 1964, with Raffaella and Andrea Leone, who will supervise and produce the feature film with their Leone Film Group, together with Lotus Production and RAI Cinema.

Stefano Sollima said:

Sollima set’s the story of the formation of three orphaned children, aged 12 to 13, who come into possession of this weapon, and for a whole series of reasons they become criminals. I can assure you that a twelve year old with a Colt in his hand is quite impressive. I want to bring the Spaghetti Western genre home.

We remember that the director's father, Sergio Sollima, was among the pioneers of the beloved genre, directing stars of the caliber of Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian.

As happened in the past, Stefano Sollima and the producers are looking for the future protagonists, antagonists, young and adults, in the United States.

However, Stefano Sollima has kept us posted

Sergio Leone has reinvented the genre, so anyone else who spins a western must consider his work, but Colt will not be a tribute to Quentin Tarantino.

The director, specifying the film's target, finally concluded:

I once told my children when they were just teenagers: "I'd like to do a western." And they replied: "What is a western?" Their generation does not know western movies. They didn't see them in the cinema. I thought it would be interesting to guide them to this genre with a story that speaks to them.



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