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‘Gomorrah’ Prequel Show Officially Sets Original Series Actor Marco D’Amore as Director, Sky Reveals in Video (EXCLUSIVE)
The buzzed-about 'Gomorrah' origin series will officially be helmed by Marco D'Amore, who is set to start shooting in Naples in early 2025.
D’Amore, who previously helmed several episodes of the series as well as a prequel feature film to “Gomorrah” titled “The Immortal” – and subsequently further honed his behind-the-camera chops directing Naples-set movies “Napoli Magica” and “Caracas” – officially announced on Tuesday that he will lead-direct this new project in a video to which Variety has been given exclusive access. The “Gomorrah” origin story will recount the rise of mobster Pietro Savastano in the 1970s, when the Neapolitan criminal underworld was pervasive but less cutthroat — more tied to selling contraband cigarettes than large amounts of drugs — as the show’s lead producer Riccardo Tozzi, chief of ITV-owned Cattleya, had previously revealed. Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli, who were among the writers of the original “Gomorrah” saga, have been working on the script together with D’Amore, who also serves as artistic supervisor, as well as Roberto Saviano, who wrote the bestselling Neapolitan mob exposé on which the series is based.
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