VIDEO | At the Rome Film Festival ‘Romolo 2’, the previews
ROME – Matteo Rovere returns today to the Rome Film Festival with ‘Romolo II – The war for Rome’, the series produced by Sky Studios, Cattleya and Greenland shot in protolatin. In the new episodes – from 21 October on Sky and streaming on Now – new cities, new peoples, new kings, more action, more stunts, more surprises, more women protagonists and a new antagonist. Before the myth, beyond the legend, the birth of Rome with the protagonists of the first season Andrea Arcangeli (Yemos), Marianna Fontana (Ilia) And Francesco Di Napoli (Wiros) to which are added Valentina Bellè in the role of Ersilia, a leader of the Sabine priestesses; Emanuele Maria Di Stefano who plays the king of the Sabines Tito Tazio, son of the God Sancos, the most powerful enemy of Rome; Max Malatesta is adviser of Sabos, and right arm of the king of the Sabines; Ludovica Nasti plays the role of Vibia, the youngest of the Sabine priestesses; Giancarlo Commare is Atys, the young king of Satricum. Vanessa Scalera (Silvia), Sergio Romano (Amulius) and Demetra Avincola (Deftri) also return. The sense of carrying on a series “is the idea of starting from a world that was born with the first season and using it as a starting point to give the public that it was more”, declared something that Matteo Rovere. “And then, there was the idea of creating the adventure by animating it with very strong human and emotional tensions, while preserving the archaic and complex nature that this series has in itself. We try to make popular entertainment – continued Rovere – with a material that lends itself to a dream I had as a child, therefore action and epic “.
‘ROMULUS 2’: ADVANCES
In ‘Romulus 2’ “we had an intuition: evil is no longer the past, or rather the lineage, but it is the stranger, always seen with ambiguity and mystery. Bringing him back to the myth, this antagonist takes shape in the ‘Rape of the Sabines’ and from this mythological origin we have developed the new season ”, said Filippo Gravino, in the ‘pool’ of screenwriters.
The second season opens under the sign of hope. Yemos and Wiros entered Velia not with violence, but with the authority of those who freed Alba and killed the traitor Amulius. With them are Ilia, Deftri, the entire people of the Ruminales, but also a large number of Latins looking for a new beginning and a new homeland. Sons of Lupa and Silvia, brothers by choice and destiny, Yemos and Wiros are proclaimed king of a new city consecrated to Rumia: his name is Rome and will rise in the place of the old Velia, a city founded on justice and peace, a promise of brotherhood and social redemption for all. But in an archaic world of oppression and oppression, where gods and men could exert violence, promises like those of Rome are difficult to keep. And the first great test that the two kings have to face has the name of Cures, the sacred city of the Sabine people. Tito Tazio, very young king of the Sabines, son of the god Sancos, feared and revered by his people, fearing the expansion of the kingdom beyond the borders, invites the two kings for a rite that will prove to be an ambush aimed at submission. In this inhospitable land, Yemos and Wiros will snatch the Sabine priestesses, very dear to him, away from the king, in a sacrilegious but inevitable gesture. When the Sabines invade Lazio to reclaim women, Yemos and Wiros remain firm in their positions but in the face of war and destruction their partnership begins to show signs of an imminent crisis, because there can be only one king in Rome. A story so far from our days but so modern. “Feelings have no time and are universal: love, friendship, father-daughter relationship are bonds that you can represent in all ages. This is the most modern and most instinctive aspect that the series needs, ”Marianna Fontana told Dire. “The characters are modern, I managed to empathize with Yemos, even if the feelings were expressed in a different way (compared to today, ed)”, added Andrea Arcangeli.
Shot in 24 weeks, the second season has already been in 40 territories. The directing team is made up of Matteo Rovere, Michele Alhaique and Enrico Maria Artale, former directors of the first season, and Francesca Mazzoleni (Punta Sacra, Succede). Filippo Gravino and Guido Iuculano return to the screenplay, joined in the room of the writers Flaminia Gressi and Federico Gnesini. “I immediately supported the choice of the protolatin, now there is a huge market for series with subtitles,” said producer Riccardo Tozzi.
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