Saura, Querejeta re-team on '33 dias'

MADRID -- Spain's Carlos Saura is installed on direct "33 dias," about Pablo Picasso's emotional turmoil while he colored masterpiece "Guernica." Title means time Picasso allotted towards the mural, which taken his reaction to the destruction of Basque capital of scotland - Guernica in 1937 with the Nazi Luftwaffe through the The the spanish language language Civil War. Project re-teams Saura with Elias Querejeta, producer of several of Saura's modern classics: "The Search," "Raise Ravens" and "Deprisa, deprisa." Saura and Querejeta composed the script alongside French author Louis-Charles Sirjacq. Allotted over Euros6 million ($7.7 million), pic is produced by Bilbao-based Idem 4. Production company Cinevedas, with offices in France, Canada and India, will co-produce. Triple Academy Award-winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro ("Apocalypse Now," "Yellows," "The Ultimate Emperor") is at advanced discussions to participate the project, producer Alberto Rojo told Variety. "33 dias" would mark Saura and Storaro's seventh collaboration. French- and also the the spanish language language-language shoot comes next summer season in Paris and Guernica, where producers will reproduce Picasso's Paris studio. Producers are speaking to have an worldwide cast that could include French thesp Jose Garcia as Picasso. A couple of from the new project's narrative, drama and key images uses Saura's prior fiction photos with Storaro, for instance "Goya in Bordeaux," "Tango" and "Io, Don Giovanni," Rojo added. Inside the film, Saura shows how painting "Guernica" was near salvation for Picasso in just a minute of non-public crisis. "Dias" "focuses on Picasso's relationship with (his lover) Dora Maar, an incredible character," Saura told The the spanish language language newspaper El Pais. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com