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‘They Call Me Jeeg’ Writing Team Talks New Project ‘Piranhas in Rome’ and Why It Isn’t Another ‘Under Paris’ (EXCLUSIVE)

'They Call Me Jeeg' writing team talks new genre-bending project 'Piranhas in Rome' and how it's different from shark thriller 'Under Paris.'

Continuing its push into the genre space, Italy’s Indiana Production has announced it is set to produce action chiller “ Piranhas in Rome – The Great Horror Beauty,” from a screenplay by ace Rome-based writing duo Nicola Guaglianone and Menotti, who penned hit superhero movie “They Call Me Jeeg.” Menotti (which is the pen name of comic book artist and screenwriter Roberto Marchionni) provided Variety with exclusive concept art – see image above – for the live-action project in which predatory freshwater fish invade Rome by entering the city’s water supply system through the Tiber river. For Indiana Production, which is part of rising European indie studio Vuelta Group, “Piranhas” marks a further step toward “developing a strand of quality genre movies,” according to Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, who heads the company’s film and TV unit.

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