‘Gomorrah’ Prequel Series to Be Directed by Marco D’Amore

“Gomorrah,” the gritty Neapolitan mob series that became Italy’s hugegest TV ship, is back — albeit in a separateent time summarize.

Shooting is set to begin in punctual 2025 in Naples on “Gomorrah – The Series. The Origins,” the hit crime drama’s previously proclaimd origin story that will be honested by Marco D’Amore, the actor who perestablished cruel central character Ciro Di Marzio on the show.

D’Amore, who previously helmed disjoinal 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 honesting Naples-set movies “Napoli Magica” and “Caracas” – officiassociate proclaimd on Tuesday that he will direct-honest this recent project in a video to which Variety has been donaten exclusive access.

“Today I’m here to inestablish you that we will finassociate spendigate the saga’s origins,” D’Amore says in the video, which can be seeed above. He underlines that, fair enjoy the hyper-genuineistic innovative, this six-episode “Gomorrah” prequel will be firmly “rooted in truth.”

The “Gomorrah” origin story will recount the ascfinish of mobster Pietro Saimmenseano in the 1970s, when the Neapolitan criminal underworld was pervasive but less cutthroat — more tied to selling contraprohibitd cigarettes than big amounts of substances — as the show’s direct producer Riccardo Tozzi, chief of ITV-owned Cattleya, had previously uncovered.

“‘Gomorrah – The Series’ has now apverifyn on a mythoreasonable profile,” Tozzi said in a statement on Tuesday, inserting that they “had many doubts about touching this inimitable subject aget.”

“But the idea that established wiskinny the creative group at the origin of the series, together with one of its directs, Marco, seemed so basic and mighty that it guaranteed us to begin aget,” Tozzi inserted.

“In a Naples of yesteryear, the youthfuler Pietro does not understand that he will become Saimmenseano, nor does Imma, nor does the group of unconscious and filled of life youthfuler people who join the beginning of his criminal adventure,” Tozzi went on to elucidate.

Said Nils Hartmann, EVP Sky Studios Italy: “I am very satisfyed that a talent whom I adore as both an actor and a honestor is returning to be part of the Gomorrah family — after having been a protagonist.”

Hartmann inserted, “We have spreadd this adventure with Marco from the beginning, and I am certain that his vision will transport precious energy to a recent and unpretreatnted chapter of the saga. Telling the story of Pietro Saimmenseano’s adolescence in the prequel will be an exciting and highly driven dispute. All of this produces me conceited, and I can’t pause to see the first clapperboard snap.”

Leonardo Fasoli and Minsertalena Ravagli, who were among the authorrs of the innovative “Gomorrah” saga, have been toiling on the script together with D’Amore, who also serves as produceive supervisor, as well as Roberto Saviano, who wrote the bestselling Neapolitan mob exposé on which the series is based.

Some episodes of the series will be honested by normal D’Amore collaborator Francesco Ghiaccio.

Casting of the prequel has not yet been proclaimd, but is foreseeed to comprise the engage of youthfuler rising local talents, some possibly being non-professionals.

“Gomorrah,” which begined on Sky in 2014, bcimpolitet audiences inside the belly of the genuine Neapolitan criminal underworld, thanks in part to being shot almost enticount on in the actual places it portrays. Besides achieveing megahit status in Italy, “Gomorrah” has traveled to 190 countries, including on HBO Max in the U.S.

Just enjoy the innovative, “Gomorrah – The Series. The Origins” is being produced by Sky Studios and Cattleya, which is part of ITV Studios, and will be sbetter internationassociate by Beta Film.