Gomorrah and Criminal Novel: Sky series prequel coming soon

BGood news for fans of the series Gomorrah And Criminal novel, they will have prequels. The origin stories of the successful series are being written Sky who have left their mark on Italian seriality, and beyond. The Dandy, the Cold, the LebaneseCiro e Genny Savastano they have become iconic names, even abroad.

To make no mistake, both will be involved in Sky projects Giancarlo De Cataldomagistrate and author of the novel of the same name on which the series directed by was based Stefano Sollimawhich Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli, screenwriters of Gomorrahinspired by the best-seller by Roberto Saviano.

The prequel to the Sky series Gomorrah

Thus the most international of the Italian series will return, Gomorrahwhich in the ranking of the most important non-American TV series of the decade 2010-2020 drawn up by New York Times ranks fifth. «With these new projects we will expand the worlds of two beloved stories, returning to our most identifying origins, but with an eye inevitably turned to the future», he stated Nils HartmannEVP Sky Studios for Italy.

The prequel to the Sky Original series, inspired by the best-seller by Roberto Savianohe will tell the criminal rise of boss Pietro Savastano, from when he was a street boy to becoming the most ruthless boss in Naples. Pietro is the father of Genny Savastano (Salvatore Esposito) and in the original he was played by Fortunato Cerlino. Sky and Cattleya will take risks choosing new faces, as they did with the original series? «Yes», ​​is the answer from Nils and Riccardo Tozzi of Cattleya.

Who was Pietro Savastano at 16?

«With the five seasons of Gomorrah we followed the evolution of reality – he says Maddalena Ravagli – now we will try to understand where it comes from the phenomenon of the Camorra beganhow it took root in the territory of Naples and how Secondigliano became the drug supermarket. We will start from 1977from smuggling.”

«There is a past mythology made up of battles, tobacco smuggling, boats and first clans – adds my colleague Leonardo Fasoli – of sedimented stories, of figures that resemble pirates that we will dissect». How they were Pietro Savastano at 16 years old? And Donna Imma? What happened in their lives? «We’ll rewind the tape», says Fasoli.

The prequel to Criminal novel

It was the 2008 when the series on the Magliana banddirected by an unknown person Stefano Sollima (today one of our most loved directors abroad), and based on the novel by Giancarlo De Cataldomade his way into the Italian and international seriality. A new language was being born through genre storytelling. Michele Placido had sensed this a few years earlier by directing one of his best films with Pierfrancesco Favino And Kim Rossi Stuartin the role of the Lebanese and the Cold.

Criminal novel – The origins will focus on the years before the rise of the Magliana band: a story of Roman crime that will slowly connect with characters who have already made history.

«Going back to the origins of Novel criminal And Gomorrah it means exploring new storytelling possibilities, always between epic and realism and with an always contemporary look, also from a style point of view – he explains Riccardo Tozzifounder of Cattleya – it is therefore a return, but with the same desire to innovate».

The origins of the characters of Criminal novel

«I got excited when they called me for this new project – he reveals De Cataldo, in a debate organized to celebrate Sky’s 20th anniversary – I breathed a climate of adventure again. At the time, snobbish, I didn’t believe in the potential of TV. And then there had already been Placido’s film, but I was wrong. We will tell the psychology of the characters who have entered everyone’s hearts and, compared to the original, we will mix the cards and the high and low environments even more. We promise, as we did then, to reveal the hidden files».

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