NEW DJANGO TV SERIES
MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS TO LEAD
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Matthias will take the lead in new Django
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Toplining our global news updates today is something coming from France:
Matthias Schoenaerts has been set as the lead of the new wild west set ten part TV series
DJANGO which will air on
Canal + in French territories and on
Sky channels around Europe. Created by
Leonardo Fasoli and
Maddalena Ravaglia it will offer a fresh new take on the Western genre with a contemporary and psychological twist.
The story is set in the Wild West in the 1860s and 1870s. Sarah and John have founded New Babylon, a city of outcasts, full of men and women of all backgrounds, races and creeds, that welcomes everyone with open arms.
Haunted by the murder of his family eight years earlier, Django is still looking for his daughter, believing she may have survived the killing. He is shocked to find her in New Babylon, about to marry John. But Sarah, now a grown woman, wants Django to leave, as she fears he will put New Babylon in jeopardy if he stays. However, Django, believing the city is in danger, is adamant that he will not lose his daughter twice. The English language series will start shooting in May.
MONICA BELLUCCI TO GET
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Monica Bellucci will try to survive the drought
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STUCK IN ROME WITH OUT WATER Meanwhile, down in Italy, as Cineuropa reports, Paolo Virzi is shooting DROUGHT (Siccita) a futuristic movie which imagines the Italian capital stricken by a water shortage, wreaking havoc on rules and customs! Monica Bellucci and Valerio Mastandrea play two of the lead characters in the film that imagines a version of Rome where it hasn’t rained for three years, resulting in a water shortage which upends rules and habits. Circulating within this city overcome by thirst yet drowning in prohibitions is a group of characters who are both young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are interlinked in one tragic and mocking design as each of them searches for personal redemption.
