There’s another installment of The Monster of Florence on the way at Netflix.
Production has begun on a three-part miniseries that follows the initial four-part series of the Italian crime mystery drama from Fremantle’s Wildside and AlterEgo. Stefano Sollima will once again direct the series he created alongside Leonardo Fasoli.
The new chapter expands on the story of the ‘Monster of Florence,’ a notorious serial killer deemed responsible for a series of killings between 1968 and 1985 that gripped Italy in fear. It will focus on the ‘Snack Buddies’ lead in the criminal investigation to find the murdered, and in particular on a key suspect, farmer Pietro Pacciani, who was later found guilty of several of the murders before the conviction was overturned.
“We always imagined The Monster of Florence as an anthology series: Standalone stories, each dedicated to one of the different suspects in the series of crimes that shocked Tuscany and Italy between the 1970s and 1980s, in what has gone down in history as the ‘Monster of Florence’ murders, an investigation that lasted over 30 years,” said Sollima.
“After focusing on the Sardinian suspects, this time we leap forward in time to address perhaps the most well-known, controversial, and debated chapter of the entire incident: the story of Pietro Pacciani, convicted and later acquitted of the crimes, and his alleged accomplices, the infamous ‘Snack Buddies,’ as the press dubbed them; a court case that divided Italian public opinion for decades. Perhaps this is also why Pacciani’s case remains the most disturbing: Guilt has never been proven, but also never completely ruled out.”
Sonia Rovai, Gina Gardini, Sollima and Lorenzo Mieli are producing the new Monster of Florence.
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