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Creative Team Talk Sky’s ‘Blocco 181,’ Which Mixes Multi-ethnic Milanese Crime and Three-Way Romance

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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentGangland warfare and a Romeo and Juliet romance with a twist are the main elements of Sky Studios’ first Italian in-house production ‘Blocco 181,’ which is set against the backdrop of a gritty multi-ethnic Milan that has never appeared on screen before.The eight-episode show – which launches this week on Sky in the U.K.

after making a splash in Italy – is lead-directed by London-based Italian director Giuseppe Capotondi, best known for art-heist thriller “The Burnt Orange Heresy” starring Mick Jagger as a shady art collector.“It’s a dark fable combining crime, romance, sex, and coming-of-age elements,” said Capotondi who besides directing the series, also co-penned the “Blocco 181” screenplay.

Capotondi added that, while rooted in reality, the show’s tone “is closer to a graphic novel than to the type of hyperrealistic series [like Gomorrah] that you can expect from Italy.” Set on a rundown Milan housing estate known as Blocco 181, where tensions are flaring between rival South American and Italian gangs, the show was inspired by the German series “4 Blocks,” produced by TNT Serie and Wiedemann & Berg, which is about the leaders of a Lebanese drug cartel in Berlin’s edgy Neukölln district.After seeing “4 Blocks,” Nils Hartmann, senior VP Sky Studios Germany and Italy, thought: “we’ve never done something like this set in Milan,” he said.

But in commissioning Milan-based Red Joint Film with developing “Blocco 181” he told its creative producer Paolo Vari, of Red Joint, that, unlike “4 Blocks,” besides Milan gangs he also wanted a “Romeo and Juliet” element, which Vari then delivered with a twist.

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