Actors Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, and Gerald Butler will be headlining the upcoming crime thriller film titled In the Hand of Dante. The film will be helmed by Julian Schnabel, with veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese serving as one of the executive producers.

The project has got an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA, thus allowing the makers to carry on with the production in Italy. In the Hand of Dante is based on the novel authored by Nick Tosches, and will revolve around the smuggling market of New York City.

The film is backed by Jon Kilik, Francesco Melzi d’eril under MeMo Films and Olmo Schnabel for TWIN Productions. Apart from Martin, the film's executive producers are DreamCrew, Screen Capital/Screen One and Tribune Pictures.