A TV mini-series based on the first
book in Elena Ferrante's bestselling Neapolitan Quartet will
screen in the US and on RAI1 in the late winter, producer
Lorenzo Mieli said Friday.
The author writing under the pseudonym Elena Ferrante has
said that she is "intrigued" by the fact that one of her
Neapolitan novels is being made into a eight-part television
mini-series.
She added, in an interview with the New York Times published
last May, that it is a "radical change" and that the
"characters, the neighborhood are all created from words, and
yet they move from literature to the screen. They leave the
world of readers and enter into the much more vast world of
spectators, they meet people who have never read about them and
people who, for social circumstances or by choice, would never
read about them. It's a process that intrigues me".
The HBO-RAI mini-series based on her international
best-selling novel "My Brilliant Friend" will be directed by
Saverio Costanzo, produced by Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani
for Wildside and Domenico Procacci for Fandango.
The author, who has always protected her real identity, was
asked "What is your hope for this production as far as its
impact on Naples and its image in the world, especially after
the unflattering depictions in the movie and popular television
show "Gomorrah"?".
Her response was: "Cities don't have their own energy. It
derives from the density of their history, from the power of
their literature and arts, of the emotional richness of human
events that take place against that background. I hope that the
visual storytelling will stir authentic emotions - complex and
even contradictory sentiments. This is what makes us fall in
love with cities."
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