Italian sales company Vision Distribution has scored sales on soccer icon doc “My Name Is Francesco Totti” by Roman director Alex Infascelli (“S Is for Stanley”) to Sky for the U.K. and Germany, ahead of its Rome Film Festival world premiere on Saturday.
The deal, which sees the high-profile doc start its international journey, was announced during Rome’s Mia market being held Oct. 14-18 as a hybrid digital and physical event.
The intimate piece is narrated by Totti, who on the night before his farewell to soccer basically relives his life as though he were watching it as a movie, together with his fans, his team, A.S. Roma, and his native Rome, the city that during his long faithful career he has come to encapsulate like few others.
Infascelli, himself a Rome native, told Variety that the doc transcends the soccer world.
This film is a homage to Rome,...
The deal, which sees the high-profile doc start its international journey, was announced during Rome’s Mia market being held Oct. 14-18 as a hybrid digital and physical event.
The intimate piece is narrated by Totti, who on the night before his farewell to soccer basically relives his life as though he were watching it as a movie, together with his fans, his team, A.S. Roma, and his native Rome, the city that during his long faithful career he has come to encapsulate like few others.
Infascelli, himself a Rome native, told Variety that the doc transcends the soccer world.
This film is a homage to Rome,...
- 10/16/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italian soccer icon Francesco Totti will be the subject of a six-part Sky Original series with the working title “Speravo De Mori’ Prima – The Series About Francesco Totti.”
Produced by Mario Gianani for Wildside, part of the Fremantle group, with Virginia Valsecchi’s Capri Entertainment, The New Life Company and Kwaï, the series is based on the book “Un Capitano” by Totti and Paolo Condò, published by Rizzoli Libri S.p.A.
Principal photography is set to commence in Rome shortly.
The series will focus on the last two years of the legendary Roma player’s career and the story of his final years with the famous “giallorossi” shirt.
The series will star Pietro Castellitto (“Don’t Move”) as Totti, and will also feature Greta Scarano (“Suburra: Blood on Rome”) as Totti’s wife Ilary Blasi, Monica Guerritore (“A Perfect Day”) as his mother, and Gianmarco Tognazzi (“There Is No Place Like Home”) as Luciano Spalletti,...
Produced by Mario Gianani for Wildside, part of the Fremantle group, with Virginia Valsecchi’s Capri Entertainment, The New Life Company and Kwaï, the series is based on the book “Un Capitano” by Totti and Paolo Condò, published by Rizzoli Libri S.p.A.
Principal photography is set to commence in Rome shortly.
The series will focus on the last two years of the legendary Roma player’s career and the story of his final years with the famous “giallorossi” shirt.
The series will star Pietro Castellitto (“Don’t Move”) as Totti, and will also feature Greta Scarano (“Suburra: Blood on Rome”) as Totti’s wife Ilary Blasi, Monica Guerritore (“A Perfect Day”) as his mother, and Gianmarco Tognazzi (“There Is No Place Like Home”) as Luciano Spalletti,...
- 7/21/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Wildside, the Italian producer behind The Young Pope and The New Pope, is to make a Sky Italia drama about A.S. Roma soccer player and World Cup winner Francesco Totti.
The Fremantle-backed outfit will work with Capri Entertainment, The New Life Company and Kwaï to adapt Totti and Paolo Condò’s book Un Capitano for the screen, with Pietro Castellitto (Freaks Out) in the lead role. In doing so, the six-part series will tell the story of the final two years of Totti’s Roma career.
The series will be directed by Luca Ribuoli (The Mafia Kills Only In Summer) and was written by Stefano Bises, Michele Astori and Maurizio Careddu. Production will begin in Rome in the next few days. Fremantle is distributing.
Nicola Maccanico, executive vice president of programing at Comcast-backed Sky Italia, said: “Francesco Totti, a unique champion who took the world by storm with a ball between his feet,...
The Fremantle-backed outfit will work with Capri Entertainment, The New Life Company and Kwaï to adapt Totti and Paolo Condò’s book Un Capitano for the screen, with Pietro Castellitto (Freaks Out) in the lead role. In doing so, the six-part series will tell the story of the final two years of Totti’s Roma career.
The series will be directed by Luca Ribuoli (The Mafia Kills Only In Summer) and was written by Stefano Bises, Michele Astori and Maurizio Careddu. Production will begin in Rome in the next few days. Fremantle is distributing.
Nicola Maccanico, executive vice president of programing at Comcast-backed Sky Italia, said: “Francesco Totti, a unique champion who took the world by storm with a ball between his feet,...
- 7/21/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
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