page_title: The Family (2013 film)
section_title: Development
hierarchical_section_title: The Family (2013 film) / Production / Development
caption_attribution_description: English: Autograph session with Tonino Benacquista at Salon du livre 2008 (Paris, France). Français&#160;: Séance de dédicaces avec Tonino Benacquista, lors du Salon du livre 2008 (Paris, France).
context_page_description: The Family is a 2013 black comedy crime film co-written and directed by Luc Besson, starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones, Dianna Agron, and John D'Leo. The film follows a Mafia family in the witness protection program who want to change their lives. The film is based on the French novel Malavita by Tonino Benacquista.
context_section_description: EuropaCorp and Relativity Media signed during March 2012 to develop two films, including their distribution. The Family would become the first one, and the second one would be Three Days to Kill (2014).
  The script, written by Luc Besson and Michael Caleo, is based on the novel Malavita by Tonino Benacquista, published in 2004. The author did not want to be very involved in the development of the film, he said: "I knew that EuropaCorp would be capable of producing a film that could be distributed, both in the United States and France, and it was a very tempting topic". The producer of the film, Virginie Besson-Silla, said that the film's storyline is nearly the same as the novel's.
  Originally, Besson would be only the producer. But after finding out that he was going to work with Robert De Niro and not finding a proper director, he decided to direct the film as well: "I thought that it was out of the question to entrust this project to any other person! I know the American and French cultures, so I decided to make me the director." De Niro asked Besson why he was not the director, and Besson told him: "Okay, you won."
caption: Tonino Benacquista, the author of Malavita.
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