It was a long time that among the insiders there was talk of a TV series taken from The Lions of Sicily, the first chapter of the Florio Saga that Stefania Auci published for Editrice Nord, transforming it into a best-seller with Bulgarian issues, except that no one knew the details or the location. Many thought it was destined for Rai, instead it was Disney + who grabbed it, bringing on his side a title that could easily go beyond national borders and become, a bit like The brilliant friend, an entirely Italian case abroad. The first take of the series has been beaten in Rome these days, together with the first details of a team that already on paper should shake the competing platforms: Paolo Genovese as director and creative producer, and a cast that sees stars of the caliber of Michele Riondino, Miriam Leone, Donatella Finocchiaro, Ester Pantano and the young Eduardo Scarpetta.
The Lions of Sicily will consist of eight episodes written by Ludovica Rampoldi and Stefano Sardo and will tell, as well as the novel, the fascinating story of the Florio family that starts with the brothers Paolo and Ignazio, two small spice traders who fled from a Calabria anchored in the past and in search of social redemption . In Sicily they invent a future, where starting from a shabby shop they give life to a flourishing business that the young son of Paolo, Vincenzo, with his revolutionary ideas, will then transform into an empire. However, to overwhelm the life of Vincenzo and that of the whole family will be the disruptive arrival of Giulia, a strong and intelligent woman, in open contrast with the rigid rules of the society of the time.
Riondino plays the role of Vincenzo, while Miriam Leone – who had been interviewed by Stefania Auci herself on D. – is Giulia Portalupi, Donatella Finocchiaro Giuseppina, Vinicio Marchioni Paolo Florio and Eduardo Scarpetta Ignazio Florio. “The Lions of Sicily confirms Disney + ‘s commitment to creating Italian content that enriches and makes the already wide and varied offer of the platform unique “declared Daniel Frigo, Country Manager The Walt Disney Company Italia, truly hoping that the project, produced by Lotus and set in nineteenth-century Sicily in a mix of love, family, successes, wars and revolutions will allow Made in Italy productions to Disney + to make the international leap.
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