Netflix Brazil Banner Series ‘Senna’ Sets Vicente Amorim as Director

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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“Senna,” Netflix’s biggest and most ambitious series ever in Latin America, now has a director, seasoned Brazilian film-TV action thriller director Vicente Amorim, whose credits include “Good” with Viggo Mortensen and “Yakuza Princess,” with Japanese American singer Masumi and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.Portraying the life of Formula One racing genius Ayrton Senna,“Senna,” produced for Netflix Brazil by Sao Paulo-based Gullane in partnership with the Senna family, is now in prep.The eight-episode fiction miniseries will plumb “the intimacy of the man who became a national hero and conquered the world,” Netflix Brazil announced on Monday.It looks set to be the biggest play ever by Netflix for one of its biggest markets anywhere in international.

In January 2021, Netflix was reported to have already run up 19 million household accounts in Brazil, nearly as many as the streamer’s then 25.49 million for the whole of Asia. “I’ve had many idols in the sport, but only one hero, Senna.

I watched his races, I rooted for him, I was inspired by him and I was in tears the day he died,” said Amorim, summing up the feelings of maybe most Brazilians towards Senna’s figure.“Senna” also looks set, however, to reverberate in international.In 2009, a poll of 217 current and former Formula One drivers made by Autosport magazine named Senna as “the greatest Formula One driver who ever lived.” Multiple other polls – by BBC Sport, F1 Racing magazine, Germany’s Bild am Sonntag – have reached the same verdict.“Senna was an international hero and through Netflix a series about him will have global reach – it will be an international series, produced and directed by Brazilians, that will move the home.