‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Play Being Developed Into a TV Series by Italy’s Fandango (EXCLUSIVE)
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItalian playwright Stefano Massini’s sweeping saga of family and finance “The Lehman Trilogy,” which is a hot ticket on Broadway in a Sam Mendes-directed adaptation, is being developed as a TV series for the international market by Italy’s Fandango, the prominent shingle behind Elena Ferrante skein “The Lying Life of Adults” for Netflix.Fandango chief Domenico Procacci said he has acquired an option for TV rights to Massini’s “Lehman Trilogy,” which follows the three Lehman brothers, from their arrival from Germany in New York in 1844 to the 2008 bankruptcy of the global financial services company they founded.Procacci, who is known to have a sharp eye for Italian IP that can travel –– having