As reported by Variety, ME, YOU, a feature film written by Greg Latter, adapted from the novel TU, MIO by Erri De Luca, will feature BAFTA-winning star of REV and ABOUT TIME, Tom Hollander, and Academy Award-nominated star of 127 HOURS and THE DISASTER ARTIST, James Franco. Legendary Danish Director Billie August, whose 1987 film PELLE THE CONQUEROR won the Palme d'Or, and Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is attached to direct.

Set in 1955, ME, YOU tells the story of Marco, a 16-year-old boy with an Italian mother and English father (played by Hollander), who spends his summers on the Italian island of Ischia. Marco befriends Nicola (played by Franco), a former GI turned fisherman, who regales Marco with stories from the war. Soon Marco also meets and falls for 20-year-old Caia, a Romanian Jewish orphan whose father threw her out of a train in Yugoslavia to prevent her from being taken to the camps. Marco’s friendship with Caia makes him examine his own trauma from the war, and, desperate to win Caia’s heart, Marco vows to take revenge on the SS by plotting against a group of German tourists on the island.

Daisy Jacob (EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE) also stars as Caia. Principal photography is set to begin in September 2022 on location in Ischia.

About Greg Latter

Greg is an award-winning South African writer and director who has worked all over the world. He is the recipient of the Thomas Pringle Award for Creative Writing (1982), the Sithengi Best Screenplay Award (2005), the SAFTA Best Screenplay Award (2007) and the Naledi Best Play Award (2011). In a career spanning 35 years, he has had 22 feature films, 11 television series and 5 plays produced.

Greg has worked with director Billie August several times before, including most recently on his highly praised feature NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON, which starred Jeremy Irons as the lead.