After pulling out of Showtime’s now-abandoned Guantanamo TV series, filmmaker Oliver Stone has added another small screen project to his slate, with Deadline reporting that he will direct the pilot of the upcoming period crime drama Dolce Vita.
Created by Tom Fontana (Oz, Homicide: Life on the Street), Dolce Vita is inspired by the 2011 Stephen Gundle book Death and Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s, a true crime novel which “investigates the murder scandal that rocked Italy and portrays the Rome of romance, luxury, and glamour–as well as a city of carnal crimes, sex, drugs, corruption, and cover-ups.”
The pilot for Dolce Vita will mark Stone’s first narrative TV directing outing, while he is also set to executive produce alongside Fontana, Dino De Laurentiis, Marco Belardi and Lello Monteverde.
