Netflix is about to launch a brand new sequence, The Decameron, a soapy interval drama comedy set through the Black Loss of life produced by the creator of Orange is the New Black.
The sequence has been created by Kathleen Jordan, creator of Netflix’s Teenage Bounty Hunters, and Jenji Kohan govt 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 Decameronin March 2022 with Netflix subsequently confirming the venture in August 2022. Kohan notably works with Netflix below an general deal that was struck in November 2017 along with her outfit, Titled Productions.
Mike Uppendahl (Ratched, American Crime Story) is about to direct episodes 1, 2, 7, and eight. Andrew DeYoung will direct episodes 3 and 4, whereas Anya Adams will direct episodes 5 and 6.
Jordan wrote episodes 1 and a pair of, plus co-wrote the season finale. Different writers on the sequence embrace James Rogers III, Anthony Natoli, Megan King Kelly, Marie Hanhnhon Nguyen, Zoe Jarman, and Stephen Unckles.
Jenji Kohan commented on the venture in August 2022:
“Kathleen Jordan is the true freakin’ deal. I’m so excited and grateful that I get to work along with her and we get to make this superior, humorous, well timed, bizarre present collectively for Netflix.”
Kathleen Jordan mentioned:
“I’m completely thrilled that I get to work with Jenji, Tara, Blake, and Netflix once more. I can’t anticipate folks to fulfill this ridiculous group of characters. I’m certain Giovanni Boccaccio can be… confused?”
Right here’s every part we learn about Netflix’s The Decameron:
When will The Decameron be launched on Netflix?
As a part of the Netflix is a Joke pageant the place Netflix introduced key dates for upcoming comedy titles comparable to Cobra Kai, Unstable season 2 and Emily in Paris, the streamer confirmed the new sequence will debut sooner or later in July 2024.
We’ll hold you posted on an actual launch date as and after we get it.
What’s the plot of The Decameron?
The brand new Netflix sequence is loosely impressed by The Decameron, the well-known assortment of witty, racy, and typically tragic quick tales about love by the 14th-century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio.
The Decameron is about in 1348 when the Black Loss of life, the deadliest pandemic in human historical past that killed as many as 200 million folks, strikes arduous 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. However 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 sequence 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, which is taken into account a masterpiece of traditional Italian prose. Nonetheless, virtually everything of her inventive imaginative and prescient for the sequence is authentic.
Per Netflix, right here’s the official synopsis:
“The Decameron is a soapy interval dramedy that goals to look at the well timed themes of sophistication techniques, energy struggles, and survival in a time of pandemic, delivered to life by an ensemble of characters each ridiculous and ill-fated. Set in 1348, the Black Loss of life strikes arduous within the metropolis of Florence. A handful of nobles are invited to retreat with their servants to a grand villa within the Italian countryside and wait out the pestilence with a lavish vacation. However 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.”
Who’s 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.
Right 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 Women) as Misia
Tony Hale (Arrested Growth) as Sirisco
Zosia Mamet (The Youngsters Are All Proper) as Pampinea
Tanya Reynolds (Intercourse Training) as Licisca
Leila Farzad (I Hate Suzie) as Stratilia
Lou Gala (Pourquoi je vis) as Neifile
Jessica Plummer (The Woman Earlier than) as Filomena
Karan Gill (Screw) as Panfilo
Douggie McMeekin (Chernobyl) as Tindaro
Solid grid for The Decameron on Netflix
What’s the manufacturing standing of The Decameron? The place is the brand new sequence filming?
Pre-production on the present came about all through the latter phases of 2022, with the cameras formally rolling from January 2023. The sequence will movie all through a lot of 2023, with the present wrap date anticipated to be June ninth, 2023.
The sequence 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 capturing!”
What number of episodes can be in The Decameron?
Netflix has confirmed that there can be eight one-hour episodes within the first season of The Decameron.
Are you wanting ahead to The Decameron coming quickly to Netflix? Tell us within the feedback down beneath.
Notice: This text comprises contributions from Tigran Asatryan.
