Gucci Family Series ‘Game Over’ Sets Cast: Miriam Leone, Matilda Lutz
“Gucci: Game Over,” the upcoming high-end Sky series described as Italy’s answer to Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci,” has decided on its main cast.
Miriam Leone (“The Lions of Sicily”) plays Patrizia Reggiani, the former socialite convicted of hiring a hitman to kill her ex-husband. This is the role Lady Gaga plays in ‘House of Gucci’. Francesco Scianna (“Mary Magdalen”) will play Maurizio Gucci, for whom Reggiani commissioned the hit, and Matilda Lutz (“Final Cut”) will take on the role of Allegra Gucci, the daughter of Maurizio Gucci and Patrizia Reggiani on whose memoirs the Sky show is based.
Nils Hartmann, EVP of Sky Studios Italy, has repeatedly called “Gucci: Game Over,” Italy’s answer to “House of Gucci.” The Italian film community was not happy with the fact that Scott, among other things, did not use Italian actors in the leading roles of “House of Gucci”.
As previously announced, the six-episode Italian series made for the international market will be directed by Gabriele Muccino, who directed the Will Smith-starring role in “The Pursuit of Happyness” and a slew of Italian film and TV hits. Filming is scheduled for this spring. “Gucci: Game Over” is co-produced by Sky Studios and Italy’s Lucky Red.
Allegra Gucci’s book – which takes 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 in front of his office in Milan. The crime was organized by Reggiani, who was convicted in 1998.
The show ‘Gucci: Game Over’ will portray the vicissitudes of the iconic family fashion empire, which imploded due to a feud, through multiple timelines. The story will be told through the eyes of both Reggiani and her daughter Allegra and will “seek 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, ultimately became self-destructive,” according to a statement from Sky Italia.
