HBO Took A Page Out Of Netflix's Playbook With This New Series

Apr 04, 2017 1115

BY: MICHAEL HAFFORD

Elena Ferrante fans can rejoice, their heroine is coming to the small screen. Well, kind of. Though many expected Ferrante to fade from public life after an Italian journalist revealed her real name last October, she's instead continued to do what she's always done: Write things for money.

HBO just announced a 32-episode order that will cover all four Neapolitan novels by the famously pseudonymous author, according to the New York Times. Saverio Costanzo will direct and help write the series, which will be adapted from Ferrante’s novels My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child. The twist: They'll all be in Italian.

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