“Sofia Coppola books Marmont film”

Love the premise of Sofia Coppola’s next movie. Per Variety:

Sofia Coppola is checking into a new hotel for her next project.

The writer-director who shot her “Lost in Translation” at the Park Hyatt in Tokyo, practically making a character out of the antiseptic structure, will set her next film at the iconic Chateau Marmont in Hollywood.

Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning will star in the Focus Features dramedy “Somewhere,” which Coppola penned.

Story centers on a bad-boy actor stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont. With an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter, he is forced to reexamine his life.

Okay, so it clearly recalls Lost in Translation (2003): The hotel setting; older man younger ‘woman; characters who “reexamine” their lives. But we have to assume Coppola knows she can’t remake Translation:

The filmmaker, who said she has been looking to make “an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles,” received permission to shoot at the hotel, which has become notorious in recent years as a popular address for tabloid-friendly celebs. Film will lense in L.A. and Italy in June and July.

“Intimate story.” Nice. And some of the movie takes place in Italy, so it might ‘open up’ more than Translation.