Jude Law to topline Paolo Sorrentino's TV series "The Young Pope"

PanARMENIAN.Net - It's official, Jude Law has been attached to topline Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's TV series, titled "The Young Pope". Producers confirmed his involvement in the project Sunday, May 17, two months after news on the matter first emerged in March, adding that HBO has boarded the project in joint production with Sky and France's Canal Plus. Sorrentino is on board directing as well as writing the script in collaboration with Tony Grisoni, Umberto Contarello and Stefano Rulli, AceShowbiz reports citing Deadline.

The story of "The Young Pope" will revolve around “the beginning of the Pontificate of Pius XIII, born Lenny Belardo (Law). He was 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 site went on describing, “This Pope is a man of great power who’s stubbornly resistant to the Vatican courtiers, unconcerned with the implications for his authority. During the series, Belardo will face losing those closest to him and the constant fear of being abandoned, even by his God. A man who is, however, not afraid of undertaking the millennial mission of defending that same God and the world representing Him.”

Production on the eight-episode series of “The Young Pope”, is set to begin this summer and continue through early 2016. The series will be filmed predominantly in Italy with additional locations to include the U.S., Africa, and Puerto Rico.