Dictator Benito Mussolini will be played by Luca Marinelli in the series shot by Joe Wright (New York Times Co./Getty Images)

british director Joe Wright is filming Mr. Son of the Centurya series on the rise of Benito Mussolini to the power that the filmmaker says is very valid today. “Populist leaders are emerging all over the world,” the filmmaker said at a press conference. the darkest hoursthe biopic of Winston Churchill and this led to Gary Oldman to win the Oscar.

Wright is at Cinecittà studios in Rome to film the series. Luca Marinelli (Memories there Trust) will be responsible for giving life to the Italian dictator who plunged Italian politics between 1922 and 1945 and, allied with adolf hitlerled Europe into World War II.

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The series will cover the period between 1919, when he founded the Fascist Party in Italy, and 1925 when, having won power with the 1922 March on Rome, Mussolini gave a speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies declaring himself dictator, said Variety.

Joe Wright is at Cinecittà studios in Rome filming the Mussolini series (REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs)
Joe Wright is at Cinecittà studios in Rome filming the Mussolini series (REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs)

The production is based on the novel of the same name, winner of the Strega Prize and international bestseller of Antonio Scurati which tells the birth of fascism in Italy and the rise of Mussolini with an innovative approach. The screenplay is written by Stefano Bises (Gomorrah, The new dad) in collaboration with David Serino (1992).

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