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Chinese Filmmaker Yi Zhou Teams With Prince Emanuele Filiberto Di Savoia For Biopic Of His Grandmother, The Last Queen Of Italy

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EXCLUSIVE: Italy’s Royal House of Savoy is getting the film and TV treatment from Chinese director, writer and producer Yi Zhou who is developing both a TV series and feature based on Queen Marie-José.‘The May Queen’, who reigned for just 35 days, led a remarkable life.

She was known as a radical royal who helped try to topple Italy’s facist leader Mussolini and pled with Hitler to help the Belgian people.

She lived in exile for years and died in 2001 aged 94.Filmmaker Zhou was born in China but raised in Italy. She will produce the TV series and feature through her Rome-based production banner Into the Sun Films, a division of parent company Into the Sun Entertainment, based in Los Angeles.The TV series is being made in collaboration with

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