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HBO’s My Brilliant Friend for Foxtel in 2019

8 part drama based on the friendship of two girls in post-war Naples coming in 2019.

Upcoming HBO drama My Brilliant Friend, an eight-part series based on Elena Ferrante’s novel of the same name, will screen on Showcase in 2019 .

Based on the first book in Ferrante’s four-part series, the 8 part series trace the friendship of two girls, Elena and Lila, in post-war Naples.

Almost 9,000 children and 500 adults auditioned for the cast of ore than 150 actors and 5,000 extras.

Newcomers Elisa Del Genio and Ludovica Nasti were chosen to portray the two lead roles of Elena and Lila as young children, with teenage actors, Margherita Mazzucco (Elena) and Gaia Girace (Lila) to assume older roles.

The series tells the story of Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman who discovers the most important friend in her life, Raffaella ‘Lila’ Cerullo, has disappeared without a trace. A writer, immersed in a house full of books, Greco turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their tempestuous friendship, stating from the point when Elena met Lila in their first year of school in 1950.

Set in a dangerous and fascinating Naples, their story goes on to cover more than 60 years of their lives, as she tries to describe the mystery of Lila, Elena’s brilliant friend and – in a way – her best friend and worst enemy.

My Brilliant Friend is an HBO, RAI Fiction and TIMVISION series, produced by Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani for Wildside and by Domenico Procacci for Fandango, in co-production with Umedia Production.

Production is currently underway in Caserta, Italy.

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