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Exclusive: Bobby Moresco, who won an Oscar for the screenplay he co-wrote for Crash, was already aboard to write the script for car racing biopic Bugatti, but he will now also direct the project.

The film will see Moresco continuing his collaboration with Italian producer Andrea Iervolino (Ferrari).

Bugatti is slated to film late next year in Italy and France for Iervolino’s new banner, The Andrea Iervolino Company, and is on course to feature a U.S. and international cast and be English-language. Moresco is scripting with Amanda Moresco and in collaboration with Soraya Azzabi.

The movie is set to tell the life story of Bugatti, the founder of the iconic automobile company, who was known for transforming the automotive world with his creative genius and relentless dedication to design and technology. The Italian-born French designer and manufacturer also designed aeroplane engines and was no stranger to tragedy: Bugatti’s son,...

Bobby Moresco, an Oscar-winning screenwriter, will bring the incredible story of Bugatti’s founder to the big screen in a new biographical film. The project, simply dubbed “Bugatti,” will follow the life of the brilliant automotive pioneer who altered vehicle design in the early twentieth century.

Moresco, who earned an Academy Award for co-writing “Crash,” will collaborate on the screenplay alongside Amanda Moresco and Soraya Azzabi. The film is set to begin filming in late 2025, with locales spanning Italy and France.

Producer Andrea Iervolino expressed enthusiasm for the project, saying, “We aim to explore the life of another visionary in the automotive world, delivering an exciting and faithful narrative that celebrates Italy’s automotive tradition.”

The film will explore Ettore Bugatti’s complex life and focus on his breakthrough contributions to automobile and aircraft engine design. A heartbreaking component of the story is the loss of his son Jean, who...

Exclusive: Bobby Moresco, who won an Oscar for the screenplay he co-wrote for Crash, has come aboard to script car racing biopic Bugatti, continuing his collaboration with Italian producer Andrea Iervolino (Ferrari).

Bugatti is slated to film late next year in Italy and France for Iervolino’s new banner, The Andrea Iervolino Company, and will feature a U.S. and international cast and be English-language. Moresco is scripting with Amanda Moresco and in collaboration with Soraya Azzabi.

The movie is set to tell the life story of Bugatti, the founder of the iconic automobile company, who was known for transforming the automotive world with his creative genius and relentless dedication to design and technology. The Italian-born French designer and manufacturer also designed aeroplane engines and was no stranger to tragedy: Bugatti’s son, Jean, was killed on August 11 1939 at the age of 30 while testing a Bugatti car near the family’s factory HQ in Germany.

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“The show must go on,” Silvia Bizio told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday, speaking by phone from the town of Ostuni in southern Italy, where Allora Fest, a new film festival led by the veteran Italian journalist in partnership with the Italian art critic Sol Costales Doulton, had just wrapped its first day.

Roughly 48 hours earlier, Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis, a key collaborator in the planning of Allora Fest, was arrested in Ostuni after a British woman told authorities that Haggis had sexually assaulted her. (The writer-director-producer has previously faced four other accusations of sexual assault in the United States.) Haggis’ Italian lawyer, Michele Laforgia, has declared that Haggis is “completely innocent.”

Haggis helped to recruit a number of Hollywood A-listers to Allora Fest — Edward Norton and Alfre Woodard honored their commitments to participate in master classes Tuesday, and others set to attend the fest,...

A version of this article originally appeared on EW.com.

The casts of two popular ’80s television series are reuniting at Atx Television Festival next year.

On Thursday, the Austin-based festival announced the cast and creator of CBS’ Designing Women will reunite for a special 30th anniversary panel. Stars Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Smart, Gerald McRaney, Hal Holbrook and Douglas Barr will join creator and executive producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason for the event. The festival is also planning retrospectives for Bloodworth-Thomason’s Evening Shade and Hearts Afire.

The cast of the quirky CBS comedy-drama Northern Exposure will also get together at Atx next year.