Bertolucci abandons 3d request 'Me and You'

ROME -- Bernardo Bertolucci on Monday will return to the director's chair after an eight-year hiatus to shoot coming-of-age drama ''Io e te'' (Most of us) which, unlike previous plans, will not maintain 3d.Following announcing in Cannes that this can be a stereoscopic pic, Bertolucci states he's been expected to abandon that plan, thinking about the truth that ''3D is known as pricey and vulgarly commercial,'' he complained recently to students at Rome's CSC film school. Two-hander will feature youthful little-known Italo thesps Jacopo Olmo Antinori and Tea Falco becoming an introverted teen and also the older half sister getting a heroin problem. They've created a detailed rapport inside the basement were the adolescent boy is hiding out, and where he tries to help her kick her habit. ''In a few days we'll descend inside the basement, and we'll re-emerge only around Christmas,'' Bertolucci mentioned in the statement. Pic is founded on the most effective-selling eponymous short novel by Niccolo Ammaniti, known outdoors Italia mainly for ''I'm Unafraid,'' modified for your bigscreen by Gabriele Salvatores. The ''Io e te'' script was co-composed by Bertolucci with Ammaniti, Francesca Marciano and Umberto Contarello (''This Ought to be the Place'').Also aboard are previous Bertolucci collaborators Fabio Cianchetti, who's lensing, editor Jacopo Quadri, costume designer Metka Kosak and hang up designer Jean Rabasse.A Ten-week shoot is planned on ''Io e te,'' which Blighty's HanWay Films is selling worldwide. Rome-based Mario Gianani is co-creating with Bertolucci's own Fiction shingle. Medusa will distribute in Italia.Pic, which utilizes 2003's ''The Dreamers,'' will probably be Bertolucci's first Italian-language feature in thirty years. Contact Nick Vivarelli at nvivarelli@gmail.com