‘Gomorrah’ Prequel In The Spotlight At AVPSummit
deadline.comThe head of Sky Studios’ Italian fare has spotlighted the challenges behind making a Gomorrah prequel in the highly competitive streaming era.
Emanuele Marchesi delved deep into the highly-anticipated next chapter of the hit gang thriller series during an AVPSummit spotlight session this morning.
He said “the world around us has changed” since the first Gomorrah movie was released in 2008, followed by Roberto Saviano’s smash hit series, which premiered in 2014 and ran for five seasons. “The competitive frameworks are very different now,” said Marchesi. “We didn’t have streamers back then – Netflix arrived in Italy around 2014 – and now there is huge and numerous drama production.” Produced by Cattleya, the prequel will enter production next year along with another prequel of a popular Sky Italia series, Romanzo Criminale – La serie.
Marchesi, who was promoted late last year to Head of Editorial Content when Sonia Rovai left for Wildside, said the team behind the Gomorroah prequel is conscious that modern-day TV is “challenging the audience and trying to give them something more.” He described Gomorrah as a “brand” that is still “celebrated” more than 10 years after its release, with his comments coming a day after Sony international productions boss Wayne Garvie said Europeans “seem incapable of” turning TV shows into franchises.
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