Sofia Coppola Finally Returns With Hotel Dramedy, ‘Somewhere’

After the three year break that followed her last film “Marie Antoinette,” indie auteur Sofia Coppola has finally come around to delivering another film. Currently titled “Somewhere,” the story takes place within the walls of the Chateau Marmont, adding another hotel set film to her resume.

The pictures will follow a bad-boy actor who is wasting away in the celebrity-clad Chateau Marmont when his estranged 11 year-old daughter shows up for an unexpected visit. Stephen Dorff (yeah, that one surprised us too, apparently he is coming back out of the woodwork) will play the lead and Elle Fanning is set to play his daughter.

Coppola’s break since ‘Antoinette’ can be attributed to recent marriage to lead singer of French rockpop band Phoenix and their new child. Her ability to recognize and capture teenage alienation will surely be on full display for “Somewhere,” with a confused pre-teen girl trapped in the cold, distant world of the Marmont.

Coppola noted recently that she has been looking to make “an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles,” and received permission to shoot at the hotel, which has become notorious in recent years for being a popular, well-documented debauch-hole and lodging of choice for many a vapid sublebrity

“Somewhere” will be shot with Focus Features producing, the same studio that backed the director’s immensely popular 2003 film “Lost in Translation.” Filming is set to being in June and run through July. We will definitely be keeping our eyes open for more news concerning this one. [Variety]