Prequel ‘Gomorrah’ Sets Production for 2025

Plans for a prequel to the Gomorrah series are moving forward, with filming now scheduled for winter 2025 on the hit crime drama’s previously announced origin story.

News that prequel show ‘Gomorrah’ is well on track emerged as Sky Italia celebrated the 10th anniversary of the country’s biggest TV export, with a special airing on Sunday – of which Variety has been given an exclusive clip – which saw the main cast trading anecdotes about how their on-screen roles eventually seeped into their real lives.

The origin story of Gomorrah will chronicle the rise of gangster Pietro Savastano in the 1970s, when the Neapolitan criminal underworld was ubiquitous but less cutthroat – more tied to the sale of smuggled cigarettes than large quantities of drugs – as the show’s lead producer, Riccardo Tozzi, series chef. from Cattleya, owned by ITV, revealed. Roberto Saviano, who generated the “Gomorrah” IP address, is on board. Other details are being kept secret.

Based on Saviano’s best-selling Neapolitan mafia exposé, ‘Gomorrah’ launched in 2014. From the start, the gritty show put audiences in the belly of the real Neapolitan criminal underworld, thanks in part to the fact that the film was shot almost entirely on the spots where it was located. portrays. In addition to reaching megahit status in Italy, ‘Gomorrah’ has traveled to 190 countries, including on HBO Max in the US.

The hyper-realistic crime anthology is Italy’s biggest TV export, having sold in 190 territories since its launch in 2014, despite being subtitled even for Italian audiences, most of whom do not understand the Neapolitan dialect in which ‘Gomorrah’ is pronounced. The show – best known for mixing neorealism with genre conventions and Shakespearean tropes – is produced by ITV Cattleya in association with Germany’s Beta Film.

Watch the exclusive clip of the 10th anniversary special above.