Netflix is about to launch a brand new collection, The Decameron, a soapy interval drama comedy set through the Black Death produced by the creator of Orange is the New Black.
The collection is created by Kathleen Jordan, creator of Netflix’s Teenage Bounty Hunters, and Jenji Kohan government produced the teenager drama alongside her and Orange is the New Black. Jordan will write and function the showrunner.
What’s on Netflix first reported The Decameron in March 2022 with Netflix subsequently confirming the challenge in August 2022.
Kohan’s total take care of Netflix was struck again in November 2017 along with her outfit, Titled Productions.
Mike Uppendahl (Ratched, American Crime Story) is about to direct.
Jenji Kohan commented on the challenge in August 2022:
“Kathleen Jordan is the real freakin’ deal. I am so excited and grateful that I get to work with her and we get to make this awesome, funny, timely, weird show together for Netflix.”
Jenji Kohan – Picture: Getty Images
Jordan government produces The Decameron with Kohan, Blake McCormick and Tara Herrmann for Tilted Productions in addition to Mike Uppendahl. Jordan mentioned:
“I’m absolutely thrilled that I get to work with Jenji, Tara, Blake, and Netflix again. I can’t wait for people to meet this ridiculous group of characters. I’m sure Giovanni Boccaccio would be… confused?”
Here’s all the things we find out about Netflix’s The Decameron:
What’s the plot of The Decameron?
The new Netflix collection is loosely impressed by The Decameron, the well-known assortment of witty, racy, and typically tragic brief tales about love by the 14th-century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio.
The Decameron is about in 1348 when the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in human historical past that killed as many as 200 million individuals, strikes onerous in Florence. A handful of nobles are invited to retreat with their servants to a grand villa within the Italian countryside and await the pestilence with a lavish vacation. But as social guidelines put on skinny, what begins as a wine-soaked intercourse romp within the hills of Tuscany descends into an all-out scramble for survival.
The collection examines the well timed themes of sophistication techniques, energy struggles, and survival in a pandemic with a contact of levity, introduced collectively by a captivating and riotous ensemble of characters. Jordan reportedly drew from the interval and the setting of The Decameron, thought-about a masterpiece of traditional Italian prose. Still, virtually the whole thing of her artistic imaginative and prescient for the collection is unique.
Who is forged in The Decameron?
In mid-December 2022, Netflix introduced a forged of at the least ten members that can characteristic in Netflix’s The Decameron.
Here’s a full breakdown of who will star and their character names in The Decameron:
- Amar Chadha-Patel (Willow) as Dioneo
- Saoirse Jackson (Derry Girls) as Misia
- Tony Hale (Arrested Development) as Sirisco
- Zosia Mamet (The Kids Are All Right) as Pampinea
- Tanya Reynolds (Sex Education) as Licisca
- Leila Farzad (I Hate Suzie) as Stratilia
- Lou Gala (Pourquoi je vis) as Neifile
- Jessica Plummer (The Girl Before) as Filomena
- Karan Gill (Screw) as Panfilo
- Douggie McMeekin (Chernobyl) as Tindaro
Cast grid for The Decameron on Netflix
What’s the manufacturing standing of The Decameron? Where is the brand new collection filming?
Pre-production on the present passed off all through the latter levels of 2022, with the cameras formally rolling from January 2023. The collection will movie all through a lot of 2023, with the present wrap date anticipated to be June ninth, 2023.
The collection is being filmed in Rome, Italy, and Viterbo, Italy (round a 2-hour drive from Rome).
On January tenth, 2023, Jenji Kohan posted on Instagram that filming was underway with the caption, “First day of shooting!”
How many episodes might be in The Decameron?
Netflix has confirmed that there might be eight one-hour episodes within the first season of The Decameron.
What’s the Netflix launch date for The Decameron?
Netflix hasn’t introduced any dates for The Decameron; contemplating the manufacturing schedule, we are able to count on solely a really late 2023 or, extra seemingly, a 2024 launch date.
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