Russell Crowe will work with Gabriele Muccino, the director of The Pursuit of Happyness, to shoot a new film, Fathers and Daughters. The script of the film comes from the Hollywood script blacklist, and the story tells the story of the family relationship between a father and daughter living in New York. Crowe will play a famous novelist who is also a widower father who has to fight mental illness while raising his five-year-old daughter Katie. The story will cross-narrate the modern Manhattan society where Katie lives in the 1980s, and the film will also reproduce the childhood shadow that Katie is trying to forget. Director Gabriele Muccino called the film "a film driven by performance". He said that he could not find an actor more suitable than Crowe to play this kind of father-daughter relationship. At the same time, Muccino was also confident in the film, "It is heartbreaking and exciting at the same time. For me, it is like a film that reminds people of classic American films such as "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in the 1970s." The story of Gabriele Muccino's new film is hard not to remind people of his 2006 film "The Pursuit of Happyness". A down-and-out single father, who was homeless due to career failure, still had to bear the burden of raising his son. For the future of his son, he picked himself up again, and finally God paid off his hard work. This touching family story also helped the male lead Will Smith to be nominated for the Best Actor Oscar. Muccino is very good at portraying, rendering and tear-jerking emotions. It is exciting to see whether the new film "Father and Daughter" can help Russell Crowe compete for the Oscar for acting again. After Russell Crowe finished promoting "Man of Steel" this year, his next new films include "Noah" directed by Darren Aronofsky and "The Winter's Legend", the film directorial debut of Akiva Goldsman, the famous screenwriter of "A Beautiful Mind" and "I Am Legend". In addition, Crowe will also make his directorial debut and shoot and star in the movie "The Water Diviner" (tentative translation, The Water Diviner).