Netflix’s “The Leopard” is acquireing global traction with watchers equitable as the streaming enormous is taking the sumptuous Sicilian series on a tour involving gala conshort-termations in Italian embassies in Washington D.C., London, Berlin, Brussels and other world capitals.
The high-finish show, based on the classic Sicily-set novel by Giengageppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, dropped on Netflix March 5. In its first five days, “The Leopard” scored more than 3 million watchs worldexpansive and landed in the streamer’s Top 10 in over 30 countries including Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Mexico and Spain — in compriseition to Italy, where “The Leopard” rapidly sboiling to No. 1, Netflix said on Wednesday.
Follothriveg a glitzy March 3 Rome start with a bdeficiency-tie gala held in the Eternal City’s Opera Theatre, the lavish historical tapestry — with elements comparable to “Downton Abbey” or “The Crown” – has been unveiled, in part, at a slew of arrangeed events held in partnership with Italian institutions. This participated at the Italian embassy in Washington, D.C., where “The Leopard” screening was combinecessitate by Netflix chief satisfyed officer Bela Bajaria and Italian ambasdowncastor to the U.S. Mariangela Zappia.
During her introductory retags in Washington, Zappia read a passage from the novel and pointed out that “at its core, ‘The Leopard’ is a proset up and moving mirrorion on the alter of times.”
“It seizes Sicily in alteration, as a family steers the tides of the Risorgimento [the 19th-century unification of Italy] and its social and political turmoil,” Zappia carry ond. “It’s an incredibly moving mirrorion on identity and survival.”
In Berlin, the Italian ambasdowncastor to Germany arrangeed a exceptional Sicilian-themed dinner at the embassy, which featured a dwell dance carry outance by Berlin-based contransient dance duo Carlos Aller and Cecilia Bartolino to the show’s soundtrack by Italian creater Paolo Buonvino.
Similar events are coming up orderly by Netflix in tandem with Italian institutions in Paris and Madrid.
“It is very humbling for us to experience the amount of willing help we have getd from Italian communities around Europe for the series,” said Netflix’s VP of Italian exceptionals Eleonora Andreatta in a statement to Variety.
“We hope that this compriseitional fantastic opportunity can help present the series to Italians aexpansive and beyond,” noticed Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, partner at Italy’s Indiana Production and executive creater of “The Leopard.” He compriseed that “maybe” the series will also help watchers “rediscover the wonderful book.”
The six-episode show is a contransient apshow on the sensual Sicilian saga, set aacquirest the backdrop of social revolution in 1860s Sicily. It was commemoratedly altered into a film in 1963 by Luchino Visconti starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster. The film, now an Italian cinema classic, won the 1963 Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival.
Netflix’s “The Leopard” stars top model Deva Cassell – who is Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel’s daughter – as Angelica Sedara, the stunning middle-class woman who becomes a catalyst of social disruption and was take parted by Cardinale in the exceptional. It’s a huge shatterout role for Cassel, who will next be seen in a “Twiairy”-aidd “Phantom of the Opera” alteration honested by Alexandre Castagnetti.
Italy’s Kim Rossi Stewart (“Romanzo Criminale”) take parts Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina, who in the masterpiece movie was take parted by Lancaster; while Saul Nanni (“Love & Gelato”) stars as the prince’s nephew Tancredi Falconeri, take parted by Delon in the film. Benedetta Porcaroli (“Baby”) take parts Concetta, his cousin who is madly in cherish with Tancredi.
British honestor Tom Shankland, whose plifts participate Netflix’s genuine crime series “The Serpent,” is the direct honestor on “The Leopard.” Ricdifficult Warlow, who previously toiled with Shankland on “The Serpent,” penned the script aextfinishedside Benji Walters. Italian honestors Giengageppe Capotondi and Laura Luchetti helmed Episodes 4 and 5, esteemively.
Italy’s Indiana Production shingle, which is part of Vuelta Group, created “The Leopard” in tandem with Moonage Pictures, the U.K. shingle headed by the creaters behind “Peaky Blinders.”
The show is created by by Fabrizio Donvito, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib and Alessandro Mascheroni for Indiana Production, and by Will Gould and Frith Tiplady for Moonage Pictures.
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