Edward Berger, director of All Quiet on the Western Front, Conclave, and Ballad of a Small Player, appears to have found his next project. It’ll be with Netflix, of course, home of two of his last three projects. Deadline reports Berger will direct Stradivarius, a drama from Tony Award-winning playwright Itamar Moses.
As the title suggests, Stradivarius is set in 18th century Northern Italy, where the world’s two best violin makers battle to build the perfect instrument.
Moses, whose credits include Showtime’s The Affair and HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, will write the screenplay himself.
Berger has begun shooting on his next film with A24, The Riders, starring Brad Pitt and Julianne Nicholson. He’s been attached to a number of projects that may or may not go anywhere, including a sixth Jason Bourne movie. He also has a biopic about Evan Gershkovich, the first American journalist arrested by Russia since the Cold War, but it’s looking bleak as Gershkovich is planning his own movie. There’s also sci-fi project The Barrier starring Austin Butler, but little has been heard of it lately.
