Jude Law has been in Venice this week at the Venice Film Festival for the press tour of his upcoming TV series, THE YOUNG POPE and now with just over a month to go until the show arrives on our screens Sky Atlantic has debuted THE YOUNG POPE trailer, which you can watch above.
From Paolo Sorrentino, director of the Academy Award-winning film THE GREAT BEAUTY, THE YOUNG POPE tells the controversial story of the beginning of Pius XIII’s pontificate. Born Lenny Belardo, he is a complex and conflicted character, so conservative in his choices as to border on obscurantism, yet full of compassion towards the weak and poor. The first American pope, Pius XIII is a man of great power who is stubbornly resistant to the Vatican courtiers, unconcerned with the implications to his authority.
The series stars two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law as Pius XIII, and Academy Award winner Diane Keaton as Sister Mary, a nun from the U.S. now living in Vatican City.
Sorrentino previously said the series is about “the clear signs of God’s existence. The clear signs of God’s absence. How faith can be searched for and lost. The greatness of holiness, so great as to be unbearable when you are fighting temptations and when all you can do is to yield to them. The inner struggle between the huge responsibility of the Head of the Catholic Church and the miseries of the simple man that fate (or the Holy Spirit) chose as Pontiff. Finally, how to handle and manipulate power in a state whose dogma and moral imperative is the renunciation of power and selfless love towards one’s neighbor.”
The series is produced by Wildside, and co-produced by Haut et Court TV and Mediapro. Executive producers for Wildside are Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani together with John Lyons. Executive producers for Haut et Court TV are Caroline Benjo, Carole Scotta and Simon Arnal. The Young Pope is a co-production of HBO and Sky.
The ten-episode series will premiere on Sky Atlantic on October 27. It will also be coming to HBO and Canal+.
