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 photographed on the set of In the Hand of Dante directed by Julian Schnabel Wednesday in the West Village of New York City.
The 44-year-old Emmy-nominated actor wore an olive blazer, gray shirt, black pants and black shoes as cameras rolled on the upcoming film.
A Guatemalan native was seen throwing a firearm.
Isaac, who has lent his voice to projects including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Addams Family in recent years, had his hair slicked back throughout the episode and a black bag slung over his shoulder.
According to the film’s logline, the film follows “the dark and brutal journey of a man who descends into a metaphorical hell until he reaches heaven in search of his forbidden and impossible love.”
Oscar Isaac, 44, was photographed on the set of In the Hand of Dante directed by Julian Schnabel Wednesday in the West Village in New York City.
A Guatemalan native was seen throwing a firearm.
Isaac, who plays the role of Poe Dameron in the Star Wars universe, joins the film’s star-studded cast, which includes Gerard Butler, Al Pacino, Jason Momoa, Gal Gadot, Benjamin Clementine and John Malkovich.
The film also features a number of prominent Italian actors such as Franco Nero, Paolo Bonacelli, Sabrina Impacciatore, Dora Romano, Claudio Santamaria and Guido Caprino.
Production also takes place in places such as Rome, Sicily, Venice and Verona. Diversity reported last month.
Isaac was pictured on set hugging Schnabel and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2008 for Best Director 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 the filmmakers convinced SAG-AFTRA to sign a temporary deal amid the actors’ strike that ended last month, according to the report Deadline.
The film is based on the novel by writer Nick Tosches.
In it, the Mafia hires a scholar named Nick to verify the authenticity of the original manuscript of Dante Alighieri’s poem “The Divine Comedy” circulating on the New York black market, according to a producers’ synopsis published by Deadline.
Nick goes down a dangerous path, angering the crowd when he steals the manuscript “in a mad attempt to have it all,” the publication reports.
The Emmy-nominated actor wore an olive blazer, gray shirt, black pants and black shoes as cameras rolled on the upcoming film.
According to the film’s logline, the film follows “the dark and brutal journey of a man who descends into a metaphorical hell until he reaches heaven in search of his forbidden and impossible love.”
In recent years, Isaac has lent his voice to projects such as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Addams Family.
Isaac, who plays the role of Poe Dameron in the Star Wars universe, was seen leaving the brownstone as cameras rolled on the film.
Isaac will be 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 with the film’s Oscar-nominated director Schnabel during filming.
The co-stars shared a sweet moment as they hugged each other on the day of filming.
Covered in a coat, Isaac was filmed on a cold December day in Gotham.
Schnabel was nominated for an Academy Award in 2008 for Best Director for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
The director focused on the footage during a chilly day of filming in the Big Apple.
Martin Scorsese is also an executive producer on the crime thriller.
The film is based on the 2002 novel by writer Nick Tosches.
Nick takes “a dark and brutal journey from a metaphorical hell to heaven with his love Juliet, while a parallel story unfolds: the odyssey of Dante himself, a man trapped in a loveless marriage with Gemma and supported only by his mentorship under the guidance of a strict intellectual” , the publication reports.
Nick subsequently travels “to Sicily and creates his greatest work, immortalizing his lost love Beatrice,” Deadline reports.
Although the timeline surrounding Nick and Dante is separate, “the two men are inextricably linked” as “both lose themselves in the pursuit of love, beauty and the very promise of the divine.”
Schabel told Variety in November that he got the idea to bring the film to life when Johnny Depp gave him the book while they were filming the 2000 film Before Night Falls.
“It’s a very comprehensive book that really covers a lot of things,” Schabel said. “But it showed Nick Tosches as a brilliant writer who could write not only in New York slang very sharply and accurately, but also in English that sounded like poetry. And then I found out that he was an expert on Dante.”