“Gucci: Game Over,” the upcoming high-end Sky series that’s described as Italy’s answer to Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci” film, has set its key cast.
Miriam Leone (“The Lions of Sicily”) will play Patrizia Reggiani, the former socialite convicted of hiring a hitman to murder her ex-husband. This is the role played by Lady Gaga in “House of Gucci.” Francesco Scianna (“Mary Magdalen”) will play Maurizio Gucci, whom Reggiani ordered the hit on, and Matilda Lutz (“Final Cut”) will take on the role of Allegra Gucci, the daughter of Maurizio Gucci and Patrizia Reggiani whose memoir the Sky show is based on.
Nils Hartmann, EVP of Sky Studios Italy, has repeatedly called “Gucci: Game Over” Italy’s response to “House of Gucci.” Italy’s film community was not pleased about that fact that Scott did not use any Italian actors in lead “House of Gucci” roles, among other objections.
As previously announced, the six-episode Italian series made for the international market will be directed by Gabriele Muccino, who helmed Will Smith-starrer “The Pursuit of Happyness” and a slew of Italian film and TV hits. Shooting is scheduled to start this spring. “Gucci: Game Over” is being co-produced by Sky Studios and Italy’s Lucky Red.
Allegra Gucci’s book — which is in the form of letters to her murdered father — reveals many family secrets, talks about her parents’ relationship before and after the divorce and describes the details of the murder. On March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci, the head of the Gucci fashion house and grandson of brand founder Guccio Gucci, was shot dead on the doorstep of his Milan office. The crime was organized by Reggiani, who was convicted in 1998.
The “Gucci: Game Over” show will depict the vicissitudes of the iconic family-owned fashion empire, which imploded due to feuding, using multiple timelines. The narrative will be told through the eyes of both Reggiani and her daughter Allegra and will “try to reconstruct the truth and identity of Allegra’s family in the timeless drama of a great Italian dynasty that, consumed by the struggle for power, ended up self-destructing,” according to a Sky Italia statement.