Roberto Benigni Resurfacing For Woody Allen's Italy-based Film?

One thing missing so far from the upcoming film Woody Allen will shoot in Italy has been...Italian actors. Allen has so far set Jesse Eisenberg, Penelope Cruz, Ellen Page and Alec Baldwin. I'm hearing that Allen will land iconic Italian director/actor Roberto Benigni to join the ensemble cast.  For the most part, Benigni hasn't been seen in these parts since he was climbing over seated superstars to accept the Academy Award for Best  Foreign Film and then later bounding up and saying he wanted to make love to everyone after he was named Best Actor in the 1997 film Life is Beautiful.