09/06/2021 - Directed by Brit Peter Chelsom, the Italian adaptation of the novel by US author Stephen Amidon is a drama masquerading as a thriller without surprises
09/06/2021 - Directed by Brit Peter Chelsom, the Italian adaptation of the novel by US author Stephen Amidon is a drama masquerading as a thriller without surprises
Oana Vasiliu 11/05/2021 | 17:45
Brasov countryside, Bucharest and Danube area are going to be the set for “Django” series with Matthias Schoenaerts, Noomi Rapace and Nicholas Pinnock. The series is an English-language reimagining of Sergio Corbucci’s classic 1966 Western which is set in the Wild West of the 1860s and ’70s.
Star of “Prometheus,” “Sherlock Holmes” and “What Happened to Monday,” Noomi Rapace will play Elizabeth, who is described as a powerful and merciless enemy of John Ellis, notes Variety publication. Along with his fiancee Sarah, John Ellis is the founder of New Babylon, a city of outcasts which welcomes everyone from any background, race or creed. 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.
| 18 February 2021
In a what is called a high-concept reimagining of the classic Western, leading European pay-TV firms CANAL+ and Sky are teaming to produce Django , a 10 x 60’ TV series loosely based on the Sergio Corbucci feature film.
The series offers a fresh new take on the Western genre with a contemporary and psychological twist. It is set in the Wild West of 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.