Italian director Paolo Sorrentino will direct a drama about former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Variety reports that the film’s working title is Loro – meaning ‘them’. Sorrentino is currently working on the script of the film and may start shooting in Summer of 2017.
Sorrentino, who won an Oscar for this film The Great Beauty, has recently completed the 10 part English TV Series The Young Pope starring Jude Law. It opened to positive reviews at the Venice International Film Festival. Sorrentino has already made several features involving powerful men including Il Divo, about Giulio Andreotti, Italy’s late seven-time premier, who was a symbol of post-war Italy.
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Silvio Berlusconi, who turns 80 this month, is believed to be preparing to exit Italy’s political arena after more than two decades in the spotlight. He has served as Prime Minister for four terms. Apart from politics, he is also a media tycoon, who owns the Mediaset network. He recently sold his football team AC Milan, which he successfully owned for thirty years. Being a media mogul never went down well with his contemporaries, as the problem of conflict of interest kept arising in his political tenure, which was already marred by scandalous sex affairs, alleged links to the mafia, and poor judgement.
Loro is expected to be a more of a depiction of Berlusconi’s world, rather than criticism of him. Indigo Films, the company that has funded all of Sorrentino’s movies to date, is expected to produce the film. But Silvio Berlusconi-controlled production house Medusa, which co-financed his most recent works, including The Great Beauty and Youth is highly unlikely to be involved with this film.
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