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Joe Wright on the Importance of Making Benito Mussolini Series ‘M’: It’s a ‘Howl Against the Current Rise of the Far-Right’
Joe Wright talks about conceiving his Benito Mussolini TV series ‘M’ as a 'howl against the current rise of the far-right.'
Luca Marinelli (“The Eight Mountains,” “Martin Eden”) plays the despotic leader during the period between 1919, when he founded the fascist party in Italy, and 1925 when – having gained power with the 1922 March on Rome – Mussolini made an infamous speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies declaring himself a dictator. The show, which was largely shot at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, will play on Sky in 2025 across its European territories (U.K., Ireland Italy, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) with Fremantle handling international sales. The idea, the concept was a kind of mash-up between “Man With a Movie Camera” [the 1929 seminal avant-guarde doc by Dziga Vertov], Howard Hawks’ Scarface and ’90s rave culture, which seemed to have a lot of ties back to the futurist movement.
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