Sean Penn and Paolo Sorrentino made a promise to each other to work together on This Must Be the Place.  Now, Penn will star and Sorrentino will direct.  The movie marks the first English-language feature of Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, who is Un Certain Regard jury prexy at Cannes.

According to Variety, Penn would play a wealthy rock star that becomes bored in his retirement and decides to take on the quest of finding his father’s executioner, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.

The script was co-written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello.

Penn has other film commitments that include The Three Stooges, Cartel and Fair Game.  Fair Game production has just gotten underway.