Writer/director Stefano Sollima (Sicario: Day Of The Soldado, Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse) is in Rome currently filming Adagio, a new crime thriller rejoining him with actor Pierfrancesco Favino. Cameras began rolling on September 5 according to Variety’s Nick Vivarelli, with a story and screenplay written by co-scribe Stefano Bises (Gomorrah, ZeroZeroZero).
Plot details are underwraps on the pic while it is known that Sollima is aiming with Adagio to cap off his Roman crime trilogy, following his 2012 riot unit crime drama, All Cops Are Bastards (A.C.A.B.), and his 2015 gangster thriller, Suburra, both which starred Favino. Adagio also stars Toni Servillo (The Great Beauty), Valerio Mastandrea (Perfect Strangers) and Adriano Giannini (The Ties).
Lorenzo Mieli his producing via Fremantle’s The Apartment shingle, alongside Sollima through AlterEgo shingle, and Vision Distribution who are releasing the film locally and selling internationally.
“I am eager and full of enthusiasm about finally returning to depict my city after all these years. Rome has changed, and so have I,” Sollima said in a statement for Variety. He went on to describe “Adagio” as a dark story of revenge and redemption, which will be the last chapter of my Roman criminal trilogy.”
Read more at Variety.