Sandokan is the international event series presented at the Rome Film Festival 2025. Produced by Lux Vide, a Fremantle group company, in collaboration with Rai Fiction, it is an idea by Luca Bernabei. It is obviously of a new adaptation of the historic saga of novels by Emilio Salgarideveloped for television by Alessandro Sermoneta, Scott Rosenbaum and Davide Lantieri, and directed by Jan Maria Michelini and Nicola Abbatangelo. Sandokan will be broadcast from 1 December 2025 on Rai1, and coming soon Disney+. He is in the protagonist role Can Yaman, the rest of the cast is made up of Alanah Bloor, Alessandro Preziosi, Ed Westwick, Madeleine Price, and with John Hannah.
Filming of the series took place in Theater 7, of the Lux Vide production hub, and between the island of Reunion, Lazio, Tuscany and Calabria, where the English colony of Labuan was built in Lamezia Terme, with the support of the Calabria Film Commisson.
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