‘Gomorrah’ Prequel Show Officially Sets Original Series Actor Marco D’Amore as Director, Sky Reveals in Video (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Gomorrah,” the gritty Neapolitan mob series that became Italy’s biggest TV export, is back — albeit in a different time frame.
Shooting is set to start in early 2025 in Naples on “Gomorrah – The Series. The Origins,” the hit crime drama’s previously announced origin story that will be directed by Marco D’Amore, the actor who played ruthless central character Ciro Di Marzio on the show.
D’Amore, who previously helmed several episodes of the series as well as a prequel feature film to “Gomorrah” titled “The Immortal” – and subsequently further honed his behind-the-camera chops directing Naples-set movies “Napoli Magica” and “Caracas” – officially announced on Tuesday that he will lead-direct this new project in a video to which Variety has been given exclusive access. “Today I’m here to tell you that we will finally explore the saga’s origins,” D’Amore says in the video, which can be viewed above.
He underlines that, just like the hyper-realistic original, this six-episode “Gomorrah” prequel will be firmly “rooted in reality.” The “Gomorrah” origin story will recount the rise of mobster Pietro Savastano in the 1970s, when the Neapolitan criminal underworld was pervasive but less cutthroat — more tied to selling contraband cigarettes than large amounts of drugs — as the show’s lead producer Riccardo Tozzi, chief of ITV-owned Cattleya, had previously revealed.
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