Oscar Isaac films sequence in which he’s getting rid of a gun in NYC’s West Village shooting In The Hand of Dante for director Julian Schnabel
Oscar Isaac was seen filming the movie In The Hand of Dante for director Julian Schnabel in New York City's West Village on Wednesday.
The Emmy-nominated actor, 44, was dressed in an olive jacket over a gray shirt with black pants and black shoes as cameras rolled on the upcoming film.
The resident of Guatemala City, Guatemala, was seen in a sequence leaving a firearm behind.
Isaac, who has done voice work in recent years on projects like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Addams Family, had his hair combed back and had a black bag on his shoulder throughout the series.
According to a logline for the film, the film “follows the dark and violent path of a man who plunges into a metaphorical hell until he reaches paradise in search of his forbidden and impossible love.”
Oscar Isaac, 44, was pictured Wednesday filming the movie In The Hand of Dante for director Julian Schnabel in New York City's West Village
The resident of Guatemala City, Guatemala, was seen in a sequence leaving a firearm behind
Isaac, who plays Poe Dameron in the Star Wars universe, is joined in the film's star-studded cast by Gerard Butler, Al Pacino, Jason Momoa, Gal Gadot, Benjamin Clementine and John Malkovich.
The film also features several prominent Italian actors such as Franco Nero, Paolo Bonacelli, Sabrina Impacciatore, Dora Romano, Claudio Santamaria and Guido Caprino.
Production is also underway in Rome, Sicily, Venice and Verona, among others. Variety reported last month.
Isaac was pictured on set hugging Schnabel, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Direction in 2008 for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Martin Scorsese is also executive producing the crime thriller, part of which was shot in Italian locations after filmmakers got SAG-AFTRA to issue an interim agreement amid the actors' strike that ended last month, according to Deadline.
The film is based on the novel by author Nick Tosches.
In it, a scholar named Nick is recruited by the mafia to validate the authenticity of an original manuscript for the Dante Alighieri poem The Divine Comedy circulating on the black market in New York City, according to a synopsis from producers published by Deadline.
Nick walks a dangerous path and confuses the crowd when he steals the manuscript “in a mad attempt to have it all,” the outlet reported.
The Emmy-nominated actor was dressed in an olive coat over a gray shirt with black pants and black shoes as cameras rolled on the upcoming film.
According to a logline for the film, the film “follows the dark and violent path of a man who plunges into a metaphorical hell until he reaches paradise in search of his forbidden and impossible love.”
In recent years, Isaac has done voice work on projects like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and The Addams Family
Isaac, who plays Poe Dameron in the Star Wars universe, was seen emerging from a brownstone building as cameras rolled over the film
Isaac is joined in the film's star-studded cast by Gerard Butler, Al Pacino, Jason Momoa, Gal Gadot, Benjamin Clementine and John Malkovich
The actor was seen during production with the film's director, Oscar nominee Schnabel
The employees had a simpatico moment when they hugged each other on the day of shooting
Isaac covered himself with an overcoat while filming on the cold December day in Gotham
Schnabel was nominated for a 2008 Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The filmmaker focused on images during the cold filming day in the Big Apple
Martin Scorsese is also executive producer of the crime thriller
The film is based on the 2002 novel by author Nick Tosches
Nick takes 'a dark and violent path from a metaphorical hell to paradise with his love Giulietta, while a parallel story unfolds: the odyssey of Dante himself, a man trapped in a loveless marriage to Gemma and supported only by his mentorship under an austere intellectual,” the outlet said.
Nick then “goes to Sicily and creates his greatest work, immortalizing his lost love, Beatrice,” Deadline reported.
While the timeline surrounding Nick and Dante is separated, the “two men are inextricably linked,” as “both lose themselves in the pursuit of love, beauty, and the promise of the divine.”
Schabel told Variety in November that the idea to bring the film to life came to him when Johnny Depp presented him with the book while they were making the 2000 film Before Night Falls.
“It's a very compact book that really covers so many things,” Schabel said. “But it revealed Nick Tosches as a brilliant writer who could write not only in New York City jargon in a very poignant and precise way, but also in an English that sounded like verse. And then I found out he was an expert on Dante.”