Rupert Everett, Malcom McDowell Join Amazon Series ‘Everybody Loves Diamonds’ as Streamer Reveals Largely Local Slate

variety.com:

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentRupert Everett and Malcom McDowell have joined the cast of Amazon heist series “Everybody Loves Diamonds,” being produced as an original in Italy, where the streamer on Tuesday also revealed a slew of unscripted local shows now on its Italian slate.Amazon’s previously announced high-end show follows a group of thieves led by Sicilian mastermind Leonardo Notarbartolo — being played by Italy’s Kim Rossi Stewart — who in 2003 managed to circumvent the advanced security system of the Antwerp Diamond Center and steal precious stones worth more than $100 million.

Everett and McDowell play secondary roles that will add international heft to the high-end skein produced by Fremantle-owned Wildside that will drop globally in 2023.

Journalists were given a sneak peek of “Diamonds” on Tuesday during a Prime Video presentation in Rome where Nicole Morganti, head of Amazon’s originals for Italy, said that Amazon’s investments in Italian content are now “split evenly between unscripted and scripted” as she unveiled a slate of new content that is almost entirely unscripted.New shows in Amazon’s Italian pipeline comprise a “LOL Xmas Special” prompted by the massive success of the local version of the streamer’s comedy show “LOL: Last One Laughing”; season two of its Italian food travelogue “Dinner Club”; improvisational comedy show “Prova Prova Sa Sa”; a movie titled “Sono Lillo” with fan-favorite comic Lillo Petrolo who broke out in LOL; a doc featuring Italian pop star “Mahmoud”; and another doc titled “Kobe – An Italian Story” on late great NBA star Kobe Bryant who grew up in Italy while his father, Joe Bryant, played for several teams in the country.