Diane Keaton is to play a nun opposite Jude Law in a new television drama about a fictional pope.
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Diane Keaton is teaming up with Jude Law for The Young Pope.
The Young Pope is Keaton’s first regular role on a TV show, and her first job on the small screen since 2006 TV movie Surrender, Dorothy.
Production starts this week and it is a collaboration between HBO, Sky and Canal +.
Since it’s a co-production between the broadcasters, we can expect to see episodes of the series premiere on both sides of the Atlantic at the same time for subscribers to Sky’s and HBO’s pay-TV service. Sorrentino will also direct all eight episodes.
The role brings Keaton back to HBO, where she produced the network’s 2003 Gus Van Sant film Elephant, which won the Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Belardo is described as a complex and conflicted character who will face losing those closest to him and the fear of being abandoned by everyone including his God. The clear signs of God’s absence.
Keaton’s credits include The Godfather, Annie Hall and Something’s Gotta Give.
Law’s character will depict: “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”, he added.
Sorrentino describes The Young Pope as being about “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 neighbour”.
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“The Young Pope” which will be broadcast on America’s HBO network at a later date. Executive producers for Wildside are Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani together with John Lyons, former Focus Features president of production.
