SEE CHARACTER POSTERS AND LUSH TRAILER FOR ITALIAN HISTORICAL DRAMA CARAVAGGIO'S SHADOW ABOUT THE FAMOUS 17TH CENTURY PAINTER WITH RICCARDO SCAMARCIO, LOUIS GARREL, ISABELLE HUPPERT

 CARAVAGGIO'S SHADOW 

1ST TRAILER & RELEASE DATE

The movie is out this November in Italy

Beside Leonardo that you watched this summer on CW and a movie on Dante that aired in Italian cinemas, there is another famous Italian artist getting a big screen treatment this year. You can expect a historical biopic on legendary painter Caravaggio in CARAVA- GGIO'S SHADOW (L'ombra di Caravaggio) which is set to arrive to cinemas November 3rd in Italy directed by their famous acting legend Michele Placido with Riccardo Scamarcio in the title role and French star Louis Garrel as his shadow. Isabelle Huppert also stars as Costanza Sforza Colonna! Today I offer you the first trailer below and also character posters!

 

THIS HISTORICAL DRAMA

depicts the struggles of the notorious Renaissance painter as he's investigated by the Vatican. Italy 1610. Michelangelo Merisi (Scarmarcio), better known as Caravaggio, ignores Catholic Church rulings that dictate how religious subjects are to be represented. Having been informed that he depicts prostitutes, thieves and vagabonds in his work, Pope Paul V orders the Vatican secret service to investigate, to decide whether to grant the clemency for which Caravaggio has petitioned since being sentenced to death for the murder of a rival in love. The investigator (Garrel) – known as The Shadow - begins the inquiry that will lead him to discover the conflicting vices and virtues of the artist whose life – or death – lies in his hands.

 

LEONARDO PRODUCERS WORKING ON TWO NEW EPIC SERIES ON CARAVAGGIO AND MICHELANGELO BESIDE SANDOKAN! OTTO BATHURST PREPARING EPIC NEW FRANKENSTEIN TV SERIES

 CARAVAGGIO & MICHELANGELO

GETTING THEIR OWN SERIES

While we are waiting for Lux Vide to bring us new Sandokan series with Can Yaman, the news comes that after Leonardo series in which Aidan Turner played famous Da Vinci, they are planning to also make two epic series about his fellow painters CARAVAGGIO and MICHELANGELO! Minamata and The White Crow director Andrew Levitas is already

These two new series will continue trilogy started with Leonardo

developing these new projects. Michelangelo and Caravaggio represent the completion of a trilogy on the great Renaissance artists that began with Leonardo. The stories of larger-than-life artists and characters will be told with a modern cut and language! Michelangelo actually appeared in Leonardo series as they were rivals, while Caravaggio worked in the 16th century Rome.

FRANKENSTEIN EPIC TV SERIES

UNDER OTTO BATHURST'S HELM

Otto Bathurst is producing and helming

Speaking of epic series, Otto Bathurst from Peaky Blinders, Robin Hood and Halo will direct FRANKENSTEIN TV series adaptation for Black Box and Stone Village. Penned by Bradley McManus, it will have the story set in pre Victorian Europe, and focusing on the behaviors and obsessions of a scientist exploring the fine thread between life and death, all set against the context of a year in which dependence on scientific breakthroughs has been paramount. The series is envisioned as a returning one, not an event mini series.