‘My Brilliant Friend’ Renewed For Fourth & Final Season At HBO & Italy’s Rai
deadline.comMy Brilliant Friend is coming to an end at HBO. But not quite yet.The WarnerMedia-owned cable network and Italian public broadcaster Rai have renewed the series, which is based on Elena Ferrante’s book series, for a fourth and final season.It comes as the third season – My Brilliant Friend: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay – launched in the U.S.
last month.The fourth season will be based on Ferrante’s The Story Of The Lost Child, the fourth book in her quadrilogy.Created By Saverio Costanzo, My Brilliant Friend is produced by The Apartment, Fremantle Italy, Wildside and Fandango.The third season, which stars Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace, follows Elena Greco and Lila, otherwise known as Raffaella Cerullo, both now grown women, during the great open sea of the 1970s.
Lila took her young son and left her husband and a comfortable life to work as a factory worker in the toughest of conditions, while Elena left the neighborhood to study in Pisa, and is now an author of a successful novel that has paved the way to an affluent and cultivated world.
They now navigate a scenario of hopes and uncertainties, still united by their strong and ambivalent bond.The series is produced by Lorenzo Mieli with Paolo Sorrentino and Jennifer Schuur exec producing.
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