MIPCOM: ITV Studios’ Cattleya Units Up Manufacturing Firm With ‘Gomorrah,’ ‘Django’ Writers

ITV Studios-owned Italian manufacturing firm Cattleya is becoming a member of forces with Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli, Italian writers whose credit embody such cross-over TV collection as Gomorrah, ZeroZeroZero and Django to launch Dedalus, a brand new manufacturing firm which is able to develop drama initiatives for the massive and small screens.

Dedalus has two initiatives far alongside within the pipeline: All the things We Ever Wished, a theatrical function about love and friendship set in opposition to the world of the Nineteen Seventies Neopolitan mafia, which Francesca Comencini (Django) will direct; and Erba, a TV collection impressed by a horrific crime — the brutal murders of a household of 4 by their seemingly-ordinary middle-aged neighbors — that shocked Italy in December 2006.

“Through the years we now have shaped a particular bond with Leonardo and Maddalena, primarily based on a novel means of working collectively which actively includes them at each stage of our shared initiatives,” stated Cattleya founder Riccardo Tozzi, who introduced the launch of the brand new firm at worldwide TV market MIPCOM in Cannes on Monday. “That’s why beginning a brand new firm collectively is the pure continuation of this journey that has resulted within the creation of recent and unique methods to inform tales.”

Fasoli and Ravagli stated over their long-term collaboration with Cattleya, the corporate has “allowed us to be completely concerned in our initiatives, beginning with the writing course of and persevering with all through
capturing.  This has fairly organically led to a brand new automobile for our shared storytelling
and thru which we purpose to set off in new instructions, with the identical enjoyable and fervour
which have distinguished all that we now have performed collectively.”