Roberto Bentivegna, co-writer for the Ridley Scott-directed “House of Gucci,” developed most of the script over Zoom when he was stuck in Colombia during the onset of the pandemic.

And yet, for a virtual screenwriting experience, it went off without a hitch.“The process was very smooth,” Bentivegna told TheWrap about the process of writing the script. “I read the script in February of 2019, and we spent a couple of months casting the movie,” he said. “After that I left to go to Bogota, Colombia, which is where I am right now and the pandemic started and I got stuck here.

It was really just me Ridley, Giannina [Facio Scott] his wife and the producer — and then every now and again, Adam Driver would show up on Zooms unannounced [with] questions and concerns and comments about about his character.” Driver plays Maurizio Gucci, grandson of the fashion empire’s founder Guccio Gucci, in the character-rich drama. “House of Gucci” focuses on how Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga) came into the picture and married Maurizio, only then to turn around and arrange his murder when their relationship went sour. “I didn’t know how far along the movie was until I got to Rome,” Bentivegna said. “Obviously I knew they were making it, but until you see it happen — especially with me, because I had so many scripts that I had written that didn’t get made —I was always St.

Thomas about it. I was like, ‘If I don’t see it, it’s not happening.’”Bentivegna spent a year in Colombia developing the script, on which he received a screenwriter credit along with Becky Johnston, who also has a “story by” credit on the film.

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