Top Hollywood director Ridley Scott is filming in Rome for an upcoming TV series featuring the Vatican.
Scott is known for directing the 2000 epic movie ‘Gladiator’, which was also filmed and set in Rome. The British director told the media: “I will be here for six weeks. I was holding out for the rain to stop.”
He is in Rome to direct the pilot show for the TV series ‘The Vatican’, a provocative modern-day thriller about spirituality, power and politics within the Vatican. It tells the story of an American archbishop as he experiences the political machinations, rivalries, mysteries and miracles of Vatican life.
‘The Vatican’ is written by Paul Attanasio, the screenwriter for the popular TV series ‘House’, and it follows the adventures of an American cleric in Rome. ‘The Vatican’ stars Kyle Chandler as Cardinal Thomas Duffy, Sebastian Koch as Cardinal Marco Malerba and Bruno Ganz as The Pope. Other actors on the cast list include Matthew Goode, Anna Friel and Rebecca Ferguson.
The mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno and the Councillor for Culture Dino Gasperini took the opportunity to give Scott a small copy of the Capitoline Wolf bronze sculpture of a she-wolf suckling twin infants, inspired by the legend of the founding of Rome.
