Playbill.com reports that ‘Nine’ director Rob Marshall confirmed the casting of Javier Bardem as Guido, Marion Cotillard as his wife Louisa, Penelope Cruz as mistress Carla, Catherine Zeta-Jones as muse Claudia and Sophia Loren as his mother.

Little bit of trivia: Back in June Marion was assumedly already making a reference to her new role in an interview with Coming Soon when she said:

And how will she follow up this landmark role and performance? “Nothing that I can talk about right now, but it’s going to be a stage musical, sort of rock opera.”

You can now pre-order La Vie en Rose on DVD Region 1 (released Nov 13). In the UK it will come to DVD on November 26.

Also ‘Ma vie en l’air’ is coming to German DVD on October 11 as Love is in the air. It will have French & German audio and as Special Features the Making of (subtitled), 2 Trailers and cast info. Pre-Order here.

Here a list of other Marion Cotillard films available on German DVDs: • La Vie en Rose • Ein Gutes Jahr • Liebe mich, wenn du dich traust • Black Box • Taxi • Taxi Taxi • Taxi 3