'LEONARDO' EPIC SERIES
AIDAN TURNER AS LEGENDARY PAINTER AND INVENTOR
Big Light Productions has released the first teaser for their new historical TV series
LEONARDO for Italian RAI in which
Aidan Turner plays the famous painter. The eight-part limited series will tell the incredible
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| The series is created by Medici producer Frank Spotnitz and will air sometime next year portraying Leonardo as openly gay |
true story of the definitive ‘Renaissance man’.
Born the illegitimate son of a notary in the rural town of Vinci, Leonardo’s lonely childhood leaves him with a relentless, near-superhuman drive to understand everything.
Under
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series also stars James D'Arcy as Ludovico Sforza and Max Bennet as
Cesare Borgia with Giancarlo Gianninni as famous Verrocchio |
questioning by a Milanese investigator (
Freddie Highmore) who holds Leonardo’s life in his hands, we come to see the terrible personal sacrifice that led him to create masterpieces that changed the way we see the world forever.
Not my thing, I'll pass on this one. I did love Freddie Highmore in the amazing TV show Bates Motel, though! <3
ReplyDeleteYou do know Leo will be portrayed as openly gay in this one? :)
DeleteWhen we were in Italy, we went to the tiny village of Vinci to see the house where Leonardo was born. Glad to read he'll be accurately portrayed as gay in this new series. Enough straight-washing!
ReplyDeleteThat is how the series was originally announced, I hope they will stick to it, but I don't think they will focus on it. Even in Da Vinci's Demons I remember Leo had a hot gay fling with a young guy and then Tom Riley played a gay fashion designer in The Collection period set series too.
DeleteI am definitely curious to learn more about him, his past, his demons, his journey as a genius. I remember visiting the place where he lived during the last years of his life in Amboise, Loire Valley in France.
ReplyDeleteHope the series won't disappoint us, I wish they changed Aidan a bit, he always looks the same in all roles and he already played a painter in Desperate Romantics, he is not a very versatile actor so he needed a beard or shorter hair.
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DeleteWe've been hearing about this one for ages and now you're telling me it won't air until next year!? Get a move on with it already!
ReplyDeleteIt won't, sadly, Italians currently have Medici starting May 1st on Netflix. But I already watched it.
DeleteAm impressed by the music used in the trailer.
ReplyDeleteShould be very nice.
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