Loro film: The Great Beauty’s Paolo Sorrentino to direct Silvio Berlusconi biopic
From conga lines to bunga bunga parties
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Your support makes all the difference.Given Silvio Berlusconi’s alleged predilection for a good orgy, who better to direct a film about him than Paolo Sorretino, the man behind The Great Beauty, which centred on a group of dissolute intelligentsia partying on the rooftops of Rome?
Sorrentino is sticking with prominent Italian figures after his The Young Pope series for HBO, according to Variety, with the film centring on the former Italian prime minister and his inner circle.
It is believed to to be titled Loro, which translates to ‘Them’, but also has a pleasing assonance with ‘L’oro’, which translates to ‘Gold’.
Sorrentino, whose last movie was the Michael Caine and Paul Dano starrer Youth, is writing the screenplay and is usually pretty rapid, so principal photography could start as early as summer 2017.
The Young Pope debuts on Sky Atlantic on 27 October, a joint production between Sky, HBO and Canal+ that stars Jude Law as Lenny Belardo aka Pius XII, the fictional first American Pope.
Sorrentino has plenty of interesting elements of Berlusconi’s life to draw upon in Loro, the tycoon's controversies having included accusations of links to the Mafia, allegations of sexual misconduct and involvement in the Panama Papers.
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