Amazon Prime Video has found just the right ways to hit global headlines daily. The streaming giant today unveiled its brand new slate of Italian Originals – both shows and films. Though not as big as yesterday’s news of Amazon Prime Video acquiring MGM Holdings for $8.45 Billion, it is, nevertheless, an alluring piece of news for digital content buffs. Amazon’s announcement of its new Italian Originals slate comes close on the heels of the March unveiling of its French Originals slate.
Amazon’s announcement of its Italian slate includes all of these –
The Bad Guy –
The dark comedy series follows the story of Nino Scotellaro, a public prosecutor, who stands up to the mafia. When he is accused of being a mafioso, and with nothing left to lose, he decides to get down and dirty and take his revenge on the people who are behind the plot to malign his reputation.
Created by Ludovica Rampoldi, Davide Serino and Giuseppe G. Stasi
Directed by Giancarlo Fontana and Giuseppe G. Stasi
Produced by Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima and Carlotta Calori’s Indigo Film
Prisma –
Prisma is a young adult drama series that centres on Marco and Andrea, identical twin brothers, both of whom grapple with issues of self-image, identity and gender norms in their own ways.
Created by Ludovico Bessegato and Alice Urciuolo
Directed by Ludovico Bessegato Produced by Rosario Rinaldo’s Cross Productions
Amazon Prime Video also revealed the cast for some of its previously announced Italian originals –
Anni da cane–
Anni da cane, or Dog Years, is a young adult comedy film, centring on a clumsy, happy-go-lucky girl called Stella, who survives a disaster and decides to count her age in dog years. Aurora Giovinazzo will play Stella in the film. Isabella Mottinelli, Federico Cesari, Luca Vannuccini, Sabrina Impacciatore, and Achille Lauro make up the rest of the cast. It is
Amazon’s first original Italian-language feature film.
Written by Mary Stella Brugiati and Alessandro Bosi
Directed by Fabio Mollo
Produced by Notorious Pictures
Everybody Loves Diamonds –
Everybody Loves Diamonds is a heist series with hefty doses of humour. A bunch of crooks get their hands on millions of dollars’ worth of precious stones from the Antwerp Diamond Centre. What follows is mayhem. Kim Rossi Stuart will play the role of Leonardo Notarbartolo in the series.
Written by Stefano Bises, Michele Astori, Giulio Carrieri and Bernardo Pellegrini
Directed by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
Produced by Wildside’s Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Gangarossa
Monterossi –
Monterossi is an investigative thriller series based on Alessandro Robecchi’s best-selling crime novels Questa non è una Canzone d’Amore and Di Rabbia e di Vento. Italian star Fabrizio Bentivoglio will play the lead in the six-episode series.
Bang Baby Bang
Bang Baby Bang is a mafia and crime drama series, set in the Milan of late 1980s. It follows the story of an assuming teenager who joins a mafia gang, becoming its youngest member. The series will star Arianna Becheroni, Adriano Giannini, Lucia Mascino and Dora Romano
Produced by Lorenzo Mieli
In addition to the above, Amazon Prime Video had earlier announced
documentary Ferro from Banijay, reality series Celebrity Hunted S2 – Caccia all’Uomo from Endemol Shine Italy, Vita da Carlo, documentary Ben: Respira, among others.
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