Sean Penn is in talks to star in This Must Be The Place, a new film from Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo). The story sees Penn play a wealthy, retired rock star - which shouldn't be too much of a stretch for the Oscar favourite.
In the film, Penn's character becomes bored of his rock retirement and goes on a quest to find his father's executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal who's hiding out in the US, apparently having lied on the immigration form where it asks visitors to the country if they were ever a member of the Nazi party between 1939 and 1945.
Sorrentino wrote the script, which will be his English-language debut, along with Umberto Contarello. The plan is to start shooting once Penn has completed his other upcoming projects: the Farrelly Brothers' The Three Stooges, Asger Leth's Cartel and Doug Liman's Valerie Plame drama Fair Game, with 21 Grams co-star Naomi Watts. He's also just finished work on Terence Malick's The Tree of Life. In other words, don't hold your breath waiting for this one, as there's a bit of a line. Still sounds promising though.