(ANSA) – ROME, AUGUST 17 – The pairing of books and TV series is confirmed as a successful duo: also in the offering of the next season, great classics and contemporary novels inspire some of the most anticipated titles on the small screen. The attention of the Tolkienian people is all for the second season of The Lord of the Rings – The Rings of Power, exclusively on Prime Video from August 29, based – very freely – on the main novel by JRR Tolkien, in particular from the appendices to the text. It will arrive exclusively on Sky and in streaming on Now in 2025, but in the meantime on September 5 and 6 there will be a world premiere out of competition in Venice, M – THE SON OF THE CENTURY, from the novel of the same name by Antonio Scurati, winner of the Strega Prize and an international bestseller, which tells the story of the birth of fascism in Italy and Mussolini’s rise to power. Joe Wright directed Luca Marinelli as the Duce, for a production of Sky Studios and Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment Pictures, a company of the Fremantle group, in collaboration with Pathé, Small Forward and Cinecittà Spa. International premiere, on August 20 at the Tribeca Film Festival, also for MY BRILLIANT FRIEND: THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD, the fourth part of Elena Ferrante’s tetralogy. Irene Maiorino and Alba Rohrwacher play the roles of Lila and Lenù as adults. Directed by Laura Bispuri, showrunner Saverio Costanzo, for an international Rai-Hbo co-production that will debut on Rai1 on Monday, November 11. Also literary in inspiration is LEOPARDI – THE POET OF INFINITY, an event miniseries directed by Sergio Rubini, making his debut in TV fiction: the biography of the poet (Leonardo Maltese), a Rai Fiction-Ibc Movie-Rai Com co-production, will be presented as a special screening in the Out of Competition in Venice to land on Rai1 on Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 December. From 17 September, I LEONI DI SICILIA, based on the novel of the same name by Stefania Auci, which follows the birth of the Florio brothers’ empire against the backdrop of 19th-century Palermo, with Michele Riondino, Miriam Leone, Donatella Finocchiaro and Eduardo Scarpetta, will be available on free-to-air Rai’s flagship channel (after being broadcast on Disney+). There is no official release date yet, but the highly anticipated upcoming release on Netflix is IL GATTOPARDO, the blockbuster directed by Tom Shankland and inspired by the novel by Tomasi di Lampedusa, on the trail of the 1963 masterpiece by Luchino Visconti, Palme d’Or at Cannes, with Kim Rossi Stuart, Benedetta Porcaroli, Deva Cassel and Saul Nanni. Indiana and Moonage Pictures are producing. On the detection front, the new entries are KOSTAS, an ironic commissioner on duty in Athens, with Stefano Fresi, from the novels by Petros Markaris (directed by Milena Cocozza), from September 12 on the Rai flagship, and STUCKY, with Giuseppe Battiston as an inspector in Treviso, from the novels by Fulvio Ervas (directed by Valerio Attanasio), arriving from November 6 on Rai2. (ANSA).
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