Brazil’s José Padilha, director of “Narcos” and writer-director-producer of the “Elite Squad” feature film diptych, has been signed by Globo Studios to write, direct and produce a Globoplay origina…
Brazil’s José Padilha, director of “Narcos” and writer-director-producer of the “Elite Squad” feature film diptych, has been signed by Globo Studios to write, direct and produce aoriginal series about Marielle Franco, the Brazilian black, gay female human rights activist assassinated in a still-unresolved murder.
Created by Antonia Pellegrino, lead writer on “Bruna Surfistinha,” a true-facts based teen call-girl drama and box office hit singled out by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as the kind of film that should never receive government funding, the Marielle Franco series will be “fictional in the same way that ‘Elite Squad’ 1 and 2 were, but with a story based on real events and on everything that it represents,” Padilha said.
To be shot largely on location in Rio de Janeiro, the series’ Season 1 details Franco’s life building up to her murder. Season 2 focuses on the investigation into her death and asks who killed Franco and who ordered her murder.
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