“La Chimera” director Alice Rohrwacher already has one new project on the way: an adaptation of “Three Incestuous Sisters,” starring Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley, Josh O’Connor, and more. But Deadline reports that picture, shooting now, isn’t the only novel Rohrwacher plans to bring to the big screen. The director will also team up with producers Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Miele from the Our Films banner to adapt and direct Italian novelist Italo Calvino‘s 1957 work “The Baron In The Trees.” One would surmise it’ll be Rohrwacher’s next project after “Three Incestuous Sisters.”
“The Baron In The Trees” will be just the second time a work of Calvino’s gets adapted to the big screen; the other is Pino Zac‘s “The Nonexistent Knight,” from 1969. That comes with little surprise to those familiar with the novelist, a postmodern fantasist whose work is full of fabulatory and diffusely structured narratives. Case in point: the novel Rohrwacher adapts. “The Baron In The Trees” follows a young Baron named Cosimo who, bullied by his older sister and tired of his responsibilities, abandons his position and climbs a tree, never returning to ground again.
It’s the kind of story that lines up well with Rohrwacher’s sensibilities, and those who have seen works of hers like “Happy As Lazzaro” or “The Wonders” will no doubt agree. Meanwhile, “The Baron In The Trees” is another buzzy literary adaptation for Out Films. The banner is coming off a highly successful 2026 Cannes Film Festival, where Pawel Pawlikowski‘s “Fatherland,” a film they backed and based on the Thomas Mann biography “The Magician,” was met with great acclaim, with Pawlikowski winning the Best Director prize. Mubi will have “Fatherland” in US theaters this Fall. Other notable Our Films project in recent years include the HBO Max series “My Brilliant Friend,” based on the Elena Ferrante novel, with Felix van Groeningen‘s “Let Love In” on the way.
As for Rohrwacher, one should expect “Three Incestuous Sisters” to get a Cannes premiere in May 2027. And that’s not just due to the cast’s star power. Rohrwacher has had four features in total premiere on the Croisette, with “The Wonders” winning the Grand Prix, and “Happy As Lazzaro” winning Best Screenplay. If that hypothetical May 2027 timeline stays intact, then “The Baron In The Trees” should reach audiences in 2028.
Stay tuned for more details on “The Baron In The Trees.” Between that newly announced project and “Three Incestuous Sisters,” Rohrwacher will be the talk of world cinema over the next few years.
