Oscar-winning director Bille August, who lately scored a world hit with TV collection “The Depend of Monte Cristo,” is ready for an additional high-end interval present that this time will hark again to Historical Rome and delve into the well timed determine of Julius Caesar.
Underlining the undertaking’s “modern” relevance, August, in an unique assertion for Selection, identified that “The Republic of Rome was the primary democracy to be undermined by a authorities that elected a dictator, granting him absolute powers.”
The collection, working-titled “Julius Caesar,” will discover “the story of a terrific chief intoxicated by energy,” the Danish director added, “uncovering the deep psychological complexities in the end main from essentially the most epic feats to his downfall.”
August, who received an Oscar for “Pelle the Conqueror,” and can be a double Palme d’Or winner for “Pelle” and “Smilla’s Sense Of Snow,” has reunited with screenwriter Greg Latter – whom he labored with on “Goodbye Bafana,” “Night time Practice to Lisbon” and upcoming movie “Me, You” – on the “Julius Caesar” undertaking. It’s being produced by Italy’s Mediawan-owned Palomar, the corporate that additionally lead-produced “Monte Cristo.”
Filming, which can happen in Italy, is scheduled for early 2027. There are not any casting particulars as but.
“In as we speak’s world, shaken by the spectre of warfare, it appears to us that taking over the problem of portraying a rare character resembling Julius Caesar – distinctive orator, infallible strategist, far-sighted politician and nice commander — is extra related than ever,” mentioned Palomar founder and CEO Carlo Degli Esposti, who can be a member of the Mediawan board.
“It has by no means been as essential as as we speak to focus on the story of such a contradictory man,” Degli Esposti continued. He referred to as Julius Caesar formidable and beneficiant “but in addition merciless; a combination of greatness and corruption exercised by energy. By the need to beat energy and keep it, even at the price of his life.”
Earlier TV collection that delved into the story of Julius Caesar embrace 2005-2007 Emmy-winning HBO/BBC collection “Rome” that chronicled the autumn of the Roman Republic and Caesar’s rise to energy; TNT’s pulpy 2002 miniseries “Caesar,” starring Jeremy Sisto within the title function; and 2023 BBC docudrama “Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator.”
August’s lushly lensed adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ “The Depend of Monte Cristo,” toplining Sam Claflin (“Peaky Blinders”) and Ana Girardot (“The Returned”), scored record-breaking rankings on Italian state broadcaster RAI and was offered extensively by Mediawan all over the world.
