Paolo Sorrentino, who won an Academy Award for The Great Beauty and whose work has often focused on the loneliness of ageing playboys with enormous power, is to make a film about Silvio Berlusconi.
Berlusconi turns 80 next month and is expected to soon retire from the political arena after a volatile career.
He was the subject of Nanni Moretti’s The Caiman (2006), in which a B-movie director makes a satire about the leader.
However, The Young Pope, his 10-part series for HBO starring Jude Law as an American pontiff, is also in English.